John Madden Quotes
The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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I've used the term 'Facebook for the enterprise,' and everyone goes, 'We don't want Facebook in the enterprise,' because it conjures up that it's not secure, and it's going to be a waste of time. All these things are true, which is why Facebook is not in the enterprise.
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It's not surprising. At the same time, it's not that usual. It's somewhere between usual and surprising.
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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
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To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
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I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
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And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
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The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.
