John Engler Quotes
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.
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I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
