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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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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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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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
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As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
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The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
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Man I made that nigga up and then found out that he is actually the creator of the word I said before-hand.
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People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
