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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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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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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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
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Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
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When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
