John Key Quotes
Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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I don't know if you realize, but I use the word 'Fuck,' so that I can think of other stuff.
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A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.
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I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
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If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.
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Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.
