John Marshall Quotes
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
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I am a straightforward man.
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Es gibt nicht zwei Momente des individuellen Lebens, die einander ganz gleichen; und es existiert zwischen den späteren und den früheren Perioden nur die Ähnlichkeit der Punkte der höheren mit den homologen der niederen Spiralwindung.
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Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
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The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.
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It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance.
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To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.
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I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care.
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When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.
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The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
