John Dryden Quotes
O gracious God! how far have weProfaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!
John Dryden
Quotes to Explore
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
Adam Hicks
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
Pamela Anderson
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
Rachel Gibson
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
Harbhajan Singh
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
Danica Patrick
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
Bebe Rexha
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
Indira Gandhi
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Xavi
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
Carlene Carter
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
Karl Malone
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
Samantha Power
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon
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In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.
Dakota Fanning
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I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: 'God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.'
Byron Katie
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It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.
John Calvin
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
Ramez Naam
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To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?
Lauren Alaina
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O gracious God! how far have weProfaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!
John Dryden
