John Heywood Quotes
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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There is something joyous about not talking.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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I totally want, like, 18 babies.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
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Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
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I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.
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It is a strong castle, and strongly guarded; but there is no impossibility to brave men.
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'They could have attacked us straight away. And Fred wanted to be one, so they can't be all bad.' 'I wanted to be a Nithling with three heads once, so that's no guarantee,' whispered Suzy as she lay down and raised her arms and feet. 'What's more, after a washing between the ears I thought it was possible.'
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...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.
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Cut my cote after my cloth.
