John Woolman Quotes
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I think celebrities suck.
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I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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'She gives him candy. They're probably going to get married.'
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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
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Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
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Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
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It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.
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A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
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I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.
