John Rowland Quotes
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
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My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.
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If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
