John Prendergast Quotes
Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe the Torah, they don't pray, they don't put on phylacteries every day. Is it any wonder that they're killed? It's no wonder. May the Almighty have mercy on them and bring them back to religion.
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'
