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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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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I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.
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Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
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Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
