John Hay Quotes
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
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My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.
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I make technology ridiculous.
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A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.
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Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
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The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.
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The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
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He never funked and he never liedI reckon he never knowed how.
