John Otto Quotes
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
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We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.
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'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'
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She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.
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All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.
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I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.
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Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
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With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.
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I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.
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I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
