John Owen Quotes
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
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Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
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With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.
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Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel.
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
