John Osborne Quotes
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
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Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.
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The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.
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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
