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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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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'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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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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It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it's like a circular motion and very sacred.
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You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
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We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.
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When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
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There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
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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.
