John Dryden Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Fire may be represented as the destroyer of all sophistry, and as the image and demonstration of truth; because it is light and drives out darkness which conceals all essences or subtle things.
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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
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Whether you eat a vegetarian diet or you include a very small amount of animal foods, for optimal health you must get the majority of calories from unrefined plant food with a minimal amount of animal products. A large quantity of unrefined plant food grants the greatest protection against developing serious disease.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
