John Prendergast Quotes
'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I am completely Socratic.
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I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.
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Getting to the top is one thing, but staying there is quite another. That's the difficult bit.
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Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.
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Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.
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'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
