John Muir Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.
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Good walkers can go anywhere in these hospitable mountains without artificial ways.
