John Drinkwater Quotes
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.
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There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
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It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.
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Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
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Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.
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I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.
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In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
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I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.
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Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
