John Dryden Quotes
… not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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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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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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You look marvelous!
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
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Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.
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This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.
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Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
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… not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
