John Foxe Quotes
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
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I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
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I love sampling, and RZA loves sampling, too.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
