John Dryden Quotes
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
T Bone Burnett
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
Barry Diller
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
Valentina Matviyenko
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
Edgardo Osorio
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
P. T. Barnum
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
J. R. Smith
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
Baba Kalyani
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
Pat Mastelotto
Mr. Mister
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
Ingrid Newkirk
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You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln and you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.
Eric Foner
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
Gary Johnson
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I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Music is inarticulate poesy.
John Dryden
