John Hughes Quotes
I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.
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I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life.
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Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
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The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.
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I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
