John Hawley Quotes
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
Quotes to Explore
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.
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We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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I love the way Tyra Banks dresses up - she looks so elegant and glamorous in whatever she wears. The confidence and attitude she exudes on and off the ramp is remarkable.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.
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I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.
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I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.
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'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
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I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
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Concerning the female sorcerer. Roman law also prescribes this. Why does the law name women more than men here, even though men are also guilty of this? Because women are more susceptible to those superstitions of Satan; take Eve, for example. They are commonly called 'wise women.' Let them be killed.
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Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.
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There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should be.
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I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
