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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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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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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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.
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People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
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All in all, Donald Trump appeals to people who want to be seen the way that Donald Trump sees them.
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I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
