John Dryden Quotes
What precious drops are thoseWhich silently each other's track pursue,Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
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The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
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I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.
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I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
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It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
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I feel betrayed by own mother.
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What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.
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Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.
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Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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What precious drops are thoseWhich silently each other's track pursue,Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?
