John Gay Quotes
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
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Is it named after Michael Jordan?
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
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Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.
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Where yet was ever found a motherWho'd give her booby for another?
