John Wesley Shipp Quotes
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
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I don't have goals in life.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
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I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.
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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.
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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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Hippies? Why, I'm the original.
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I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
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I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.
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Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.
