John Dryden Quotes
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Quotes to Explore
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
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Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.
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With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.
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I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.
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[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
