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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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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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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.
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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.
