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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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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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 am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
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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.
