John Boyne Quotes

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

John Boyne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: April 30, 1971

Topics

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I'm just happy to be working.

Jeremy Renner

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I do think there is a bit of Liberace in me.

Jenny Packham

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We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.

John O. Brennan

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I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater.

John Lithgow

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The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

Meryl Streep

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Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.

John Roberts

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For the vast majority of Americans who work hard and play by the rules, paying the bills may be hard some months, but it's something we always do.

Ami Bera

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Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

Lorenza Izzo

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Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Joyce Meyer

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I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Brad Bird

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I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

Peter Steele

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Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

Tyra Banks

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