John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
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I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
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War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.
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Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
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The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.
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My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.
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Many women are so wounded that they can't love another person.
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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
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Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.
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Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.
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Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.
