John Dryden Quotes
Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
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The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.
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Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
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Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain.
