John Templeton Quotes
The four most expensive words in the English language are 'this time it’s different.'
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
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Those cameras are not going on the move unless we have a protester. If we had a protester that’s the only time they move because they’re showing something that in their mind is a bad thing, so then they move. But I like that, I’ve always liked my protesters because the cameras show these massive crowds and people say wow, was that a big crowd.
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The four most expensive words in the English language are 'this time it’s different.'
