John Woolman Quotes
We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
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There is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't.
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How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.
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For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.
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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
