John Mason Brown Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.
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For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.
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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
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It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.
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I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.