John Donne Quotes
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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People hate searching.
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May books spread the world over!
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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The best time is always yesterday.
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You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.
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Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
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The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.
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As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.
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Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
