John Delaney Quotes
Small businesses are more nimble and innovative than large corporations, and as a result are much more likely to develop the breakthrough ideas we need for global competitiveness.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
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We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
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Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
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Small businesses are more nimble and innovative than large corporations, and as a result are much more likely to develop the breakthrough ideas we need for global competitiveness.
