John Green Quotes
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
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Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
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I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.
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I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.
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When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
