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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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.
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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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The pictures and dresses and official functions - that's my job, but it's not my whole life.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
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Most small businesses in this country today are taxed at the individual level as Corporation LLC. So whatever is cut out of those earnings is money taken out of capital for reinvestment for creating more jobs and opening up more locations.
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I spent a lot of my adolescence in Miami, where it was super humid, and my hair would get super frizzy, and my waves weren't really consistent or pretty.
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Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
