John Selden Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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Let us have peace.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?
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Each album we The Replacements made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
