John Zimmerman Quotes
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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Bling is good.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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I'm pretty boring.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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Affluence means influence.
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
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Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content,Thou knowest of no strange continent;Thou hast not felt thy bosom keepA gentle motion with the deep;Thou hast not sailed in Indian seas,Where scent comes forth in every breeze.
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Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.
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Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.
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We took advantage of the running boom, which became the jogging boom, which became the fitness boom... and we've benefited from all of that.
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To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.
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Every citizen knows his place. He is born to that place, and the elaborate discipline of training and education and surgery he undergoes fits him at last so completely to it that he has neither ideas nor organs for any purpose beyond it.
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
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The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
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Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
