John W. Snow Quotes
We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
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There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.
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We have to keep our eye on inflation, but so far inflation remains reasonably in check on the global stage.
