John Zimmerman Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Writers are so important.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
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I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.
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I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.
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You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time.
