John Gregory Dunne Quotes
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.
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How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
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Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.
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I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton's [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when we were off. Lester [Young], Don Byas and myself - we would meet there all the time and like, exchange ideas. It wasn't a battle, or anything. We were all friends. Most of the guys around then knew where I lived. If someone came in Minton's and started to play - well, they'd give me a ring, or come up and call me down. Either I'd take my horn down, or I'd go down and listen. Those were good days. Had a lot of fun then.
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There are no legends about the Duponts; the legends are about Howard Hughes.
