John Paul Stevens Quotes
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Love is more than one thing.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.
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The only person I really believe in is me.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.
