John Dyer Quotes
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I always feel that I compete with myself.
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...History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.'
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
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I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
