John Dryden Quotes
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
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The main idea with Brave is that you don't have to think about Bitcoin; you just have this frictionless payment system.
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Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.
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You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
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Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
