John Dryden Quotes
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.
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I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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I don't understand this concept of women-oriented films or stories based on women, because nobody uses the term, a 'man-oriented' film. Why do you have to separate girls from boys?
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It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.
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For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? ... The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.
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In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
