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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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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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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Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.
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Friday: Baudelaires, please come with me.Olaf: What about me?Friday: Go away.
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I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.
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For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
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Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher
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Fashion is a completely international business.
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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
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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.
