John Green Quotes
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
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I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.
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Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
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I can't wait to tee off against our fans. It can be tough to connect with our fans on the road and I think that through Xbox Live and Game with Fame we now can.
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Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.
