John Donne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
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I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.
