John Philip Sousa Quotes
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film.
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Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
