Donovan Quotes

It's not like me and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hang out every week, but we keep together in promoting Transcendental Meditation.

Donovan

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I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.

Jochen Zeitz

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Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

John Cornyn

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As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.

Robert Stromberg

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If you no longer have the view of winning in F1, then you should consider something else.

Jean-Eric Vergne

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There's no reason that America should be No. 1 in obesity; we have the greatest country in the world.

John Salley

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I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

Amanda Burton

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I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. 'How are those new cars?' I asked. 'They're fine,' he said. I thought he'd offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn't. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn't buy the car.

Stanley Marcus

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A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say.

Shimon Peres

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When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

Trent Reznor

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I just hate talking about myself.

Miuccia Prada

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Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Joshua Foer

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When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

Dmitry Medvedev

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