John Gay Quotes
Through all the Employments of Life Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:All Professions be-rogue one another:The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:And the Statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.
Quotes to Explore
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
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There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
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Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word
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Through all the Employments of Life Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:All Professions be-rogue one another:The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:And the Statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.
