John Wanamaker Quotes
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.
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I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
