John Major Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.
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I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.
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I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.
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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.
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Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!
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Life is full of surprises.
