John Selden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.
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I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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There are many paths but only one journey.
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The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.
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And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!
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'Double, treble, quadruple bubble, watch the stock market get into trouble...'
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My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. Then beams of the huge night Converged upon its image, Until the wind blew.
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Without a name and nothing to be desired, If only imagined but imagined well.
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I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: 'take off your pants'; 'dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep'; etc.
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When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.
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Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.
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I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
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...I think there's only one thing that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline and cooperation.
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Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
