John Lone Quotes
I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
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There are three kinds of people-the living, the dead, and those at sea.
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Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
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I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.
