John Henry Newman Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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From Lee, a dramatist: Ah! the poet hath no true hope, who doth not place it in the many, and in the feeling of the common multitude.
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There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.
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I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.
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One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
