John L. Flannery Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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Presidents seem to fall into two positive categories: they're one of us, or they're heroes. Both McCain and Obama probably see themselves as potential heroes - presidents who will be looked up to, not presidents everyday people will remark are 'just like me.'
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.
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