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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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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I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
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Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.
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In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.
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Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
