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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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'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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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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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
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You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
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There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
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I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props.
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I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.
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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.
