John Dryden Quotes

Nor is the people's judgment always true:The most may err as grossly as the few.

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life
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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
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• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
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• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • World
  • Best
  • Travel

• An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.

  

  Sam Brownback
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  • America
  • Freedom

• We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.

  

  Gary Frank
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• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
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• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
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• I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.

  

  Bar Paly
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• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
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• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
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• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
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• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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  • Countryside

• In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

  

  Alexander Payne

• The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • World
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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Writing
  • Art
  • True

• My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

  

  Chris Abani
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• Nor is the people's judgment always true:The most may err as grossly as the few.

  

  John Dryden
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