John Dryden Quotes
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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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Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
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As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.
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Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.
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There is magic in Scotland. It's country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.
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But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;Within that circle none durst walk but he.
