John T. Flynn Quotes
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
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What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York but never ended up there.
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I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them... There's no better place to fight for working families than the governor's chair.
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Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
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Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory;We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
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Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
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Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.
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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
