John Verity Quotes
It wasn't in a school band. I didn't manage to hook up with anybody at school. Pretty soon after I started playing, I stopped going to school. It took quite a while for my parents to find out. I didn't need to go to school anymore because I was going to be this big rock and roll star.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
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I was a librarian.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.
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What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
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I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.
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It wasn't in a school band. I didn't manage to hook up with anybody at school. Pretty soon after I started playing, I stopped going to school. It took quite a while for my parents to find out. I didn't need to go to school anymore because I was going to be this big rock and roll star.
