John Green Quotes
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I'm not a control freak.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.
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The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
