John Lothrop Motley Quotes
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.
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I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.
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I love playing with this band it feels new again. I love playing with Cinderella, but there's not new going on with them right now. We go on tour every other summer, make some money, have a blast, and it's great to get back with the guys again. But with Naked Beggars, for Eric and I, it's a chance to do new music, stuff we can write and record, and then take it to the road ourselves, and have fun.
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
