John Dryden Quotes
… not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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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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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.
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It was a lousy plan, the only thing to commend it being the fact that all the alternatives were worse.
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… not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.
