John Selden Quotes
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Quotes to Explore
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.
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Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.
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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
