John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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My record speaks for itself.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.
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It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.
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I still have to count on my hands! I'll be in a restaurant doing a tip and I'll be like, 'What's 20% of this?'
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I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
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I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred. It feels unearthly; it makes me feel a way that talking to somebody doesn't make me feel, it's something you can't even wrap your head around. It's not abstract, you can't even grasp it - that's what music is to me.
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I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.
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I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.
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I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
