John Glenn Quotes
To me, there is no greater calling … If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I've accomplished something.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.
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In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
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Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
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As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.
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We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
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I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
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It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
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To me, there is no greater calling … If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I've accomplished something.
