John Otto Quotes
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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Among the achievements celebrated in Trump's first 100 days are the 59 cruise missiles launched at the Syrian airfield from which the gas attack on civilians allegedly came, and the dropping of the 22,000-pound MOAB bomb in Afghanistan. But what did these bombings accomplish?
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my napkin over the remaining portion. This is what I frequently refer to as a 'food funeral.'
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
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Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.
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My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.
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Everything at Airbnb is a continuation of what it's like to be a guest in somebody's house. We think about how each stage makes people feel.
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President Obama talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
