John Green Quotes

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

John Green

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1977

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There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

Joel Edgerton

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I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.

John Grant

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It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

John Requa

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The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Rosa Luxemburg

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Some of my biggest influences are people like Steven Wright and Todd Berry. I'm a shy person, and I don't think people who aspire to do comedy think that's an option.

Ron Funches

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When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Jay Asher

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'The Shining' was amazing. I mean, that movie's just all time.

Johnny Messner

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I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Dita Von Teese

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I'd wish for my work to be remembered rather than myself.

Claire Messud

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I don't have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.

Bojana Novakovic

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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

Bruno Latour

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If we live in a perpetual state of outrage, Trump wins. Because when we become depleted and exhausted and sapped of our energy, we're not as resourceful, creative, or effective.

Arianna Huffington

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