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John Sexton Quotes

We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1942

Topics

Challenge Start Magic Keep Going

The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.

Work Time Building House Done Loan

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Robert Schumann

Life Mind Rest Body Find Strive

It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.

Science Science Fiction Real Fiction

If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.

You Know Talk Something Thrown Much

I want to be one of the wrestlers that actually gave back, that actually cared about the industry. That's very important to me.

Me Back Important Want Industry

Not to get too maudlin, but I think all mistakes are tests for one's mettle.

Mistakes Think Tests Get I Think

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.

Stefan Sagmeister

Time New York Design Year You Run

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though it was background and a comfort, and I think that is very dangerous.

Walls People Think House Comfort

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Life Love People Violence Early

When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite - the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn.

Child Parents Baby Husband Grow Gay

Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.

Joseph Stiglitz

Problems Values Country Tax Reflect

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Good Freedom People Because Found

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