John Hensley Quotes
I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh people valued my winning in the Olympics - it was a great memory.
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I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.
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This is a racist country.
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One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes giving interviews next to Ben Kingsley. I'm nowhere near cynical or jaded enough not to be incredibly thrilled by that.
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.
