John Major Quotes
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.
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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
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We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.