John Vanbrugh Quotes
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I started out doing musicals.
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It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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Nothing beats a great smile.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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We've got songs for the women, songs for when you're going through things.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him - goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
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Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.
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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
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When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
