John Strachan Quotes
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.
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I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.
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In Beverly Hills, the higher you climb, the farther you fall.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
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The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
