John Sebastian Quotes
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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I find drinking really helps.
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It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.
