John Major Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
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In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.
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I hate touchy-feely things.
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I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
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Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.
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I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
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I love my films. I have stacks and stacks of DVDs. I put 'Last of the Mohicans' on the other day with Daniel Day-Lewis. It hurts me to say it because he's a Millwall fan, but I think he's fantastic.
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Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
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When we moved to Laguna Niguel, there was one four-way stop sign between the freeway and PCH.
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A soundbite never buttered any parsnips.
