John James Audubon Quotes
In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
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Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.
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In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.
