John C. Maxwell Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I'm not a sun person.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.
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If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
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People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
