John Sterling Quotes
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
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He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
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My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
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I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.
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Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
