John Deacon Quotes
I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
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Telling ourselves that fiction is in a sense true and at the same time not true is essential to the art of fiction. It's been at the heart of fiction from the start. Fiction offers both truth, and we know it's a flat-out lie. Sometimes it drives a novelist mad. Sometimes it energizes us.
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I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.
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L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.
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I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.
