John Dos Passos Quotes
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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I will either be famous or infamous.
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I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
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It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.
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Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
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Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.
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There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.
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You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
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We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
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As soon as that little "ba-da-da-dink-dink" at the beginning of "Under the Sea" starts I think to myself: "Here we go! Let's do it!" When I first got the role, I was very intimidated because people have high expectations. But I have nothing to prove only to share. I'll do my best interpretation of what these songs should sound like in their current incarnations and it's quite an honor.
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
