John Williams Quotes

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

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• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Religious
  • Internet
  • Now

• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Speak
  • Excited

• You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Fight

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Religion
  • Catholic

• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Realize

• Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Joy

• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • School
  • Way

• Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Victory

• I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Moment

• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • You
  • Tell
  • Let

• You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Way
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• If you have less weight, you have less strength.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • You
  • Strength
  • Weight

• Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Religion
  • Discipline

• Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Liberty
  • Move
  • Censorship

• It's so childish, 'greatest country in the world.' It's like saying, 'I have the greatest wife in the world. Not just the one best suited for me, the greatest wife in the world. And if you could have my wife, you'd kill your wife.'

  

  Bill Maher
  • World
  • Country
  • Wife

• The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

  

  Susumu Tonegawa
  • Brain
  • Mysterious
  • Subject

• Charles Darwin, the Abraham of scientific men - a searcher as obedient to the command of truth as was the patriarch to the command of God.

  

  John Tyndall
  • God
  • Men
  • Truth

• The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular.

  

  Richard Rolle
  • Inseparable
  • Singular

• There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

  

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