John Poindexter (John Marlan Poindexter) Quotes
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.
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At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.
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It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
