John Major Quotes
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
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I don't really feel part of any particular movement.
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Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
