John Florio Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe to America or whatever other civilization is now on its way to supplant Europe.
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The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
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Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.
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Night is the mother of thoughts.
