John Donne Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
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There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.
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So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.
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Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.
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Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.
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But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
