J. G. Holland Quotes
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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But I think we need the international market.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I love action movies.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
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Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The phenomena and underlying mechanisms discussed in this book may thus become even more relevant to a larger and larger portion of human activity. Understand their origin, and be prepared for subtle but significant precursors!
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
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A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
