John James Ingalls Quotes
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, 'In God We Trust.' This isn't something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
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That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
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I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert … a man with a machine and inadequate culture … is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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As I refuse violence, I refuse to serve the violent.
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I think it’s more to do with economics now. Earlier, one used to wait in queues for hours in the heat, trying to buy a ticket, to go and see Shammiji in Junglee or Dilip saheb in Ganga Jamuna. Whereas now, thanks to the video boom, one gets the stars in one’s bedroom at a snap of one’s fingers. There is no mystique left.
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An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
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I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.
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When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.
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I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
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The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
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Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
