John Paul White Quotes
This was the best - and the worst - decade of my life. I’m not sure I could relive it - but I’d like to believe it’s made me a better person, husband, and father. I’d also like to believe that the next decade will be better for having lived this one. Let’s find out.
Quotes to Explore
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
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I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
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…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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And while he was doing those things, he thought about Allie and the love that was missing from both their lives.
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This was the best - and the worst - decade of my life. I’m not sure I could relive it - but I’d like to believe it’s made me a better person, husband, and father. I’d also like to believe that the next decade will be better for having lived this one. Let’s find out.
