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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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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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
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To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
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The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.
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The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
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Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.
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What is the use of money if one cannot use it to make one's friends comfortable?
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What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
