John Delaney Quotes
With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly - it is incredible to other men.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.
