John Dryden Quotes
Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,Seat of pleasures, and of loves;Venus here will choose her dwelling,And forsake her Cyprian groves.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim in America. By using satire, we will encourage people to reconsider their assumptions about Muslims, while providing a balm to those experiencing anti-Muslim bias. I also hope those Uncles and Aunties out there will crack a smile!
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
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As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!
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I am having a good time doing nothing.
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I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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Fairest Isle, all isles excelling,Seat of pleasures, and of loves;Venus here will choose her dwelling,And forsake her Cyprian groves.
