John Shirley Quotes
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Man I got so many regrets. The biggest is that Eminem gave me so many demos - six different times he approached me, and I didn't sign him. Shame on me.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.
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I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
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But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
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In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.
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We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
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While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
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I've had this happen before. I'll give it one day and be ready to go (today).
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It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!
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I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
