John Dewey Quotes
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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There are a lot of very simple recipes in the book, and there's a huge amount of material to help people understand how things work.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
