John Irving Quotes
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.
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I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
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I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.
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I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.
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The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
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I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
