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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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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America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
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Exchange implies equality.
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Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
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Cut my cote after my cloth.
