John Hughes Quotes
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
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Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.
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When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
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One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
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You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
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We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
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Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.
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What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while. No wonder people liked admirers. They seemed, in some strange way, to make one come alive.
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When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
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I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.
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What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
