J. B. Priestley Quotes
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
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He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. “You’ll be the death of me, Elena.” She smiled. “You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.
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There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
