John Dryden Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.
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There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and we like to think for ourselves.
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Unconventional warfare needs to remain the heart and soul of U.S. Special Operations Command and component commands.
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There's just something hypnotic about maps.
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It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
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Second thoughts, they say, are best.
