John Grogan Quotes
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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The Internet is a toilet. It is.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
