John Dryden Quotes
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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You can get beat any day.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.
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You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
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I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
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It was in the eyes that all the joys and scars floated like lotus leaves just below the surface of a pond.
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But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;Within that circle none durst walk but he.
