John Delaney Quotes
There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.
Quotes to Explore
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.
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When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.
