John Dryden Quotes
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
Quotes to Explore
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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But I think we need the international market.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
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Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
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Most people are ready to take the dialogue forward. The only place where that is not the case is the administration.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
