John T. Flynn Quotes
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
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To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
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Power is making a statement about who you are.
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...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.
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We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
