John Mott Quotes
Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
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Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.
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The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.
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Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.
