John Dos Passos Quotes
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
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I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
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A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.
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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.
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I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.
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When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.
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Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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All right we are two nations.
