B. J. Porter Quotes
There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.
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I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
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I'm 99 today and I'll be 100 tomorrow. It's another day.
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I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.
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There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.
