John Dryden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
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I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.
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The world is begging for you to lead.
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We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.
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People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don't coach integrity violations. You fire them.
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They say everything in the world is good for something.
