J. B. Priestley Quotes
We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
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Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.
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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve.
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There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.