John Fleming Quotes
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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I hate having my picture taken.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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I want to make people laugh.
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Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.
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Getting elected as a Republican in Massachusetts is very, very different from being elected as a Republican in New Hampshire.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.
