John Wycliffe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The only power you have is the word no.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
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Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
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I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
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Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.
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We can watch every time someone looks at a profile. Do they choose to send that person a message? We can look at every message that's sent, and we can determine, was that message replied to or not.
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The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
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'You have to admit, half the people who work here are mildly autistic; poor social skills, the ability to obsess on anything numerical or repetitive, the odd outfits, the paranoia and the sense of continually being judged and measured.'
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One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
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A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.
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Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.
