John Rampton Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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At Mass General in January 2007, Dr. Loeffler's team attached a ring-shaped metal frame to my head with four pins. Then I went to the radiation center, where they strapped me to the treatment table and secured the head frame so that I couldn't move.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
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I didn't change the world.
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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If I began today, I would certainly remember that by becoming a movie actress one automatically becomes vulnerable in the matter of gossip.
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The world is changing much too fast for us to have a moribund system which is not flexible, which cannot evolve and develop with changes in our society, in our country, as they come about in the world.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.
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Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are facts of life which must be faced.
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The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
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I've come to love making videos for my company.
