Arthur Japin Quotes
That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.
