John R. Allen Quotes
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
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Great men marry great women.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
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No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
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You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
