John Tillotson Quotes
Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
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Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50!
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We looked at Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division. He was a very ultra cool, non-expressive character. Cutler is confident, but people sometimes mask their insecurities with confidence.
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Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
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Geraldine: We must tell the truth!Prentice: That's a thoroughly defeatist attitude.
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A cage went in search of a bird.
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My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.
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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.
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Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.
