John Hancock Quotes
The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I love bayou life.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Where 'Dragon Quest Monsters' originated from was 'Dragon Quest V,' where you had a monster befriending system as a main part: you could actually befriend monsters and have them fight on behalf of your party, as part of your party.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
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The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.
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The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.
