John Quelch Quotes
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'
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If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.
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Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
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To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.
