John Wells Quotes
As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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I had an investor who said to me he'd keep his money with me as long as I didn't have a girlfriend and I didn't start combing my hair.
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I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.
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As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
