John Hughes Quotes
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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My grandfather and I were very close.
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I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.
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Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.
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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.
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It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
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I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.
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Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
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Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.
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No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child's play to it. I've tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs.
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I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.
