John Dryden Quotes
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped;And they have kept it since by being dead.
Quotes to Explore
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
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This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.
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I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
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You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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Most Americans have probably heard the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' about a billion times in the supermarket alone.
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I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.
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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.
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Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped;And they have kept it since by being dead.
