John Tesh Quotes
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.
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Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.
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I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.
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It's my job to try and be as good a person as I can, and that's enough work for me.
