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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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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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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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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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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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.
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I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
