John Fogerty Quotes
I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
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A bat is bornNaked and blind and pale.His mother makes a pocket of her tailAnd catches him. He clings to her long furBy his thumbs and toes and teeth.And then the mother dances through the nightDoubling and looping, soaring, somersaulting -Her baby hangs on underneath.
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Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
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I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.
