John Green Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
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I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.
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I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?
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I sat with the grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs at the world premiere of 'Tarzan,' and at the end of the film, he was very happy. He told me that we were bringing 'Tarzan' to a whole new generation, and he was very grateful.
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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
