John Henry Newman Quotes

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

John Henry Newman

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• One always wonders about roads not taken.

  

  Warren Christopher
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  • Always
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• There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Power
  • Age

• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Growing
  • Feelings

• I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

  

  Parker Harris
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  • Father
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• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  

  Nancy Lopez
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  • Bad
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• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
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  • American
  • Wanted

• As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
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  • World

• It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.

  

  Karl Urban
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?

  

  Cara Buono
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  • Love
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• The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

  

  Randy Pausch
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  • Strong
  • Team

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
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  • Different

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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  • Love
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• I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

  

  Laura Dekker
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  • Sea
  • Sailing

• 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.

  

  Yami Gautam
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  • Love
  • She

• I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

  

  Tamara Tunie
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  • Home
  • Parents

• But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
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  • Science
  • Method

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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  • Dream

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

  

  Freya Stark
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  • Effort

• I get more out of life just being myself, by just being a human being. Not by being a rock star, not by being whatever. Sometimes I act like a jerk, but I think people respect me for being myself. That's the ultimate thing about the Smashing Pumpkins.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Respect

• The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
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  • Business
  • Small

• We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

  

  John Henry Newman
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