John Key Quotes
I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.
Quotes to Explore
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who has different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can disappear. And the other people would take it, not giving support.
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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.
