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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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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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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I'm not optimistic.
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What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.
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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
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You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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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.
