W. E. Johns Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
Joanne Rowling
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
J. R. Smith
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
Ira Glass
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
Wanda Sykes
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Quentin Tarantino
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
Patrick Stewart
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
Yitzhak Rabin
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
Ted Williams
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
Baz Luhrmann
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
Adam Hochschild
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The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
Geoffrey Boycott
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.
Lord Byron
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
Flannery O'Connor
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Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .
Pablo Neruda
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One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
W. E. Johns