John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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What matters most is the win.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that.
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That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
