John Grogan Quotes
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.
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Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.
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I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.
