Jon Corzine Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.
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There is no one single solution to the gun violence issue, nor are there any easy answers.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.
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What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.
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Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.
