John Dryden Quotes
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
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I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
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I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!
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I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.
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Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
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Despite my fierce opposition to the bill, I signed up for insurance through the exchanges and instructed my staff do the same.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
