John Jay Chapman Quotes
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I could find only three kinds of business in the world-mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?
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A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
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Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists.
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.