John Fletcher Quotes
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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Players have an in-season playing weight, and we have to be careful not to stray too far from it when we're not under the watchful eye of the nutritionist. This can be a problem when the food isn't being prepared and regulated by our cooking staff.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
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An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.
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Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
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I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.
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I just live my life and do what I want to do and don't think about what is written about me.
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L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
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Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
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I find the medicine worse than the malady.
