John C. Maxwell Quotes
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What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
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I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
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A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
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Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.
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It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.
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Woful was the proof that man, if unrestrained, if left to his own devices, is not merely incapable of recovering his innocence, but will rush madly down the steep of sensuousness and impious self-will until he finds himself engulphed in the abyss of perdition. The trial of freedom had failed: the second of the ages was ended.
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It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.
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Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
