John Henrik Clarke Quotes
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. But it was what it was, and I appreciate what my parents did for me.
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I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
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There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
