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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The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
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It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.
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I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.
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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.
