John Fleming Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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My family are my friends.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
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When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?
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When I was growing up, we went to Musikfest every year, and I have vivid memories of the corn on the cob. I'm going for the concert, but I'm really going for the corn.
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The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.
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I think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".
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We've got our own power - the power of the purse.
