John Green Quotes
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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We care about margins.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
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I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.
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I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
