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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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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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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If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
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Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
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To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
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When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.
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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
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It is a deere collopThat is cut out of th' owne flesh.
