John Hancock Quotes
It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.

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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.
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That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.
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I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes.
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I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
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If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it.
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I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.
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It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.