John Dryden Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.
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As I see it, tech in Africa 1.0 was the mobile-phone boom, and version 2.0 was about new apps developed in response to local needs. Tech in Africa 3.0 should be about those who are successful in transforming the chatter into real opportunities.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.
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Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife.
