John McGraw Quotes
Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
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How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
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Me, I don't need money.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
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No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
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No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
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Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.
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Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
