John Podhoretz Quotes
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
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Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.
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Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
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There are uncertain truths - even true statements that we may take to be false - but there are no uncertain certainties. Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty; but it is well worth searching for truth; and we do this chiefly by searching for mistakes, so that we have to correct them.
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I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
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To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
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Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .
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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
