John Donne Quotes

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

John Donne

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• People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Why
  • Diversity

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Fine
  • Twins
  • Togetherness

• I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Star
  • Been

• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Education

• I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • She
  • Play

• If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Enjoy

• My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Reading

• We don't claim that there is plenty of money. Greek people are not asking for money. They are asking for work and the ability to make a living.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• 'I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.''In my experience,' Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, 'excitement is always better when it happens to other people.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People
  • Experience
  • Missing

• All I do is scream your name.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles

• As far as the Jets go, I'm competing to play. It will be a heated competition between Kellen and me, and I'm excited about that; I will do it in a respectful way. I have the utmost respect for him because he's a great player. Whatever's best for team will be best for the team and the coaches will decide.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Great
  • Team
  • Respect

• I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• Without unity, the country will face disaster.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Country
  • Unity

• I have a very, very creative family.

  

  Gemma Ward
  • Family

• Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • Success
  • Pray
  • Fail

• To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

  

  Harvey Korman
  • Secret
  • Characters
  • Conflict

• The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

  

  John Donne