John Sterling Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.
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That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false.
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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
