John Poindexter (John Marlan Poindexter) Quotes
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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You will wonder how it was possible for me to endure the same kind of “tomorrow the world” talk that had sent me running away from Hainburg. The answer is simply that I had run out of places to run away to. Surrounded by a population that had been completely sold on monstrous ideas, I simply retreated down, down, down, trying to live in imitation of the German writer Erich Kästner, whom I had always admired and who responded to the Nazi years with what was called “internal emigration.” The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.
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We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
