John Denham Quotes
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.
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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
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To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
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I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.
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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
