John Monash Quotes
Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole communityJohn Monash
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
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Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by draining its vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealth as a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any community can survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, on which community survival is always dependent in the end.
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I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
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For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
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Equip yourself for life, not solely for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole community
John Monash
