John Webster Quotes
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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A good film is also a documentary.
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Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.
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You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
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I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
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Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
