John Sweeney Quotes
I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
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My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
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You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?
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When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
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I am popular with certain people, but I'm still blocked out of the establishment. I hate that incestuous world. It makes me sick. It's impossible for anything truly original to get done. Thinking is not allowed. It's all PC. It is so horrible because it is a fossilized, parasitic version of Sixties philosophy.
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Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.
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Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.
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Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
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It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.
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People take sex far too seriously.
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The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Dancing and music get into our bodies and it gets into our minds and it gets into our souls and we can be connected to something else. Music connects us all to each other, and I think that's just magical and beautiful, and I need that in my life. Heartbreak is the pain of separation. To me, the cure that music offers and that dancing offers is complete integration.
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I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.
