John Muir Quotes
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
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When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.
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Declamation roared, while Passion slept.
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I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'
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Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
