John Sterling Quotes
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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History develops, art stands still.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
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Love is the law, love under will.
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Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.
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Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.
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Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That's the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
