John Madden Quotes
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I never lie to my fans.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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Oregonians expect the state to prioritize the health and well-being of them and their families.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.
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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.
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The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
