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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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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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.
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Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a magazine in your hand, but there are lots of ways you can signal differences. Where native advertising and these other things get tricky is when the consumer can't tell the difference between edit and advertising.
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This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself—ask any soldier.
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The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.
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I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
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What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
