John Young Quotes
I don't feel a sense of personal failure. If there is a sense of failure, it's that I let the people who invested in me, who invested in this campaign down.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone bad,' a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.
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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.
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I don't feel a sense of personal failure. If there is a sense of failure, it's that I let the people who invested in me, who invested in this campaign down.
