John Engler Quotes
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
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Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.
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The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity’s ancient campaign against pagan nature.
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Whatever form it has, it matter will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.
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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
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Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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Hay dolores que han perdido la memoria y no recuerdan por qué son dolores.
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It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.
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You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.
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Nobody gets any guarantees.
