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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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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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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I was a street dancer.
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…the simple-minded positivism that believes it has found a firm ground of certainty if it only excludes all mental phenomena from consideration and holds fast to observable facts.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.
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It's just determination, working hard, and keeping my feet on the ground in training and keep on proving people wrong.
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If some guy said this to me, I wouldn't listen either, but one-rep max-outs are the dumbest things you can do to yourself.
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I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
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There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
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Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
