John Foster Quotes
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How lucky am I?
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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When you challenge me, I like my chances in a fistfight. On the field, I use the same approach. I'm going to win. And I'll do it by any means necessary. If you're not willing to go that route, don't come my way.
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Oh, Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd - Man's forgiveness give - and take!
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It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.
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I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
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If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
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I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.
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Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.
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I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.
