John Key Quotes

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

John Key

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For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.

Jeremy Renner

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My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

John Morgridge

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I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Matthew McConaughey

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On 'The Avengers,' I've been working closely with Mark Ruffalo.

Andy Serkis

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If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

Stephen Daldry

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My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

Trey Burke

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I never play as well without these guys; the best I have ever been creatively has been with Pearl Jam.

Mike McCready

BestPlayNeverWithoutWellBeen

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Jonathan Kozol

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Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes. And we don't know where all of that is going to take us.

Donald Johanson

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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