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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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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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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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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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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If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody . . . That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.
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Honestly, if a girl's wearing, like, a Gucci shirt with a Gucci belt and a purse and a visor, that's not cute at all. You can't get away with that - with me - but you can always sprinkle it in there with your own stuff, and it's all good.
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Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.
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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.