John Hersey Quotes
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I always played to win.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
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A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.
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I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style.
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I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
