John Monash Quotes
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.John Monash
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
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Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.
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Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.
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I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
John Monash
