John 5 (John William Lowery) Quotes
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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You have to decide what level you want to participate in your children's lives. The more you do, the better your relationship is going to be. You have to listen to your instincts. You know when it's time to lay down the law.
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Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
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I got approached by SoBe a few months ago about being an ambassador and I learned about the previous ones including Naomi Campbell, so I was instantly interested! Then I tried and really liked it. It's different and has interesting flavours... we don't have anything like it in the U.K.
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In Argentina at various tournaments, it's great. Every day it's full, everybody's crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.
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You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.
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Sometimes if you're in the studio for a very long time, you want to get out and play live shows and vice versa.
