John Phillips Marquand Quotes
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.
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She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
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I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.
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I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.
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There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us.
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You have got to give children respect from the earliest stage. You should be proud of whatever you do. If you're not, you really shouldn't be doing it at all.
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If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.
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Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
