John Donne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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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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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
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But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
