John Donne Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'
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I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
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God has pity on kindergarten children.
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The noble lord in this case, as in so many others, first destroys his opponent, and then destroys his own position afterwards. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.
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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
