John Donne Quotes
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.
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The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.
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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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The first song that I had that went platinum was 'Keep Your Head Up,' which was a long time ago. Then, you get 'one-hit wonder' with that.
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If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
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What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
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Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.
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Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.
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I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
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Truly there is no such thing as finality.
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Oh, wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursel's as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
