John Dyer Quotes
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.
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It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.
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For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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I think it's more optimistic about human nature to acknowledge that people are the products of their time but then to see that they have moments of grace and dignity that everybody has.
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I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
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I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.
