John Glenn Quotes
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
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I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
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I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.
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Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away.
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100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.
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There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.
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After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.
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I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
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It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.
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Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
