John Fleming Quotes
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I like things simple.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
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If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.
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I'm not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I've had a lot of ups and downs, and I don't feel deserving a lot of times.
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The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.
