John R. Allen Quotes
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.
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If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.
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There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
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At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.
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To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.
