John Dryden Quotes
A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.
Quotes to Explore
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.
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We say to the Creator of all this magnitude and majesty, ‘Well, I’m not sure You are worth it…. You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I’m really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You.’
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A Heroick Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest Work which the Soul of Man is capable to perform.
