John Jay Chapman Quotes
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate - you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.
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The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
