John Guare Quotes
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
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Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.
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Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
