John Paul Jones Quotes
Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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If people can see you in a film and not realize it's you until the very end, that's exciting to me.
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I was MARRIED for TWO FUCKING YEARS! Hell would be like Club Med!
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It's so important to look out for your child and protect them.
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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.
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Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people.
