John Rampton Quotes
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
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Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
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Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.
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I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes ... No law that we now have on the books ...can insure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it.
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For every Netflix, there's a Blockbuster. Every Facebook, a MySpace.
