John Petrucci (John Peter Petrucci) Quotes
Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.
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Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.
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Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.