John Glenn Quotes
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.
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When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.
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I never put down a bad script and I never walk out of a bad movie because I'm always hopeful things will change.
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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
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I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I couldn't follow what they were talking about. But then I met this great guy whom companies hire to find their security holes, and he was very good about explaining so I could understand.
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The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.
