John Edwards Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
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I've never pulled out of a fight, never not showed up to fight, so injured or not, I'm coming.
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Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.
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I have grown up in the bright light of America.
