John Philip Sousa Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
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True art lies in a reality that is felt.
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My religion lies in my composition.
