John Heywood Quotes
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
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I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
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I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
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No one is ever ordinary.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
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I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
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I’m not denouncing the church, and I’m not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It’s not a church worthy of denouncing.
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There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'
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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.
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The priests had been told that I had dared to say that the moon was the world I came from and that their world was only a moon. They believed that constituted an adequately just pretext to condemn me to drowning, which was their way of exterminating atheists.
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Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.
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Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs.
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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.
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No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.
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It is a deere collopThat is cut out of th' owne flesh.