John Gay Quotes
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
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Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.
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The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
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Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.
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Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.
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My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I'm delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.
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Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.
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I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.
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The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
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The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.
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There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
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I love singing, it lifts my spirit.
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We want you to stop caring about what anybody else's response is to you. And when you get there, they'll all really, really like you. It's the strangest thing. When you need their approval, you never get it. And when you don't need their approval, you're so tuned in, everybody wants to be with you.
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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
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We only part to meet again.
