John Masefield Quotes
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
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If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
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The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him.
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We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.
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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
