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People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

Quotes by Judd Hirsch

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

Quotes by Juan Enriquez

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Quotes by Juan Goytisolo

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

Quotes by Joyce Banda

I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

Quotes by Joyce Banda

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Quotes by Josiah Warren

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Quotes by Joshua Logan

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

Quotes by Joshua Reynolds

Before we even approached this movie, the 'Fantastic Four' on its own is very unique.

Quotes by Josh Trank

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Quotes by Josh Mandel

I want to ultimately own the world.

Quotes by Josh Rosen

Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.

Quotes by Josh Hawley

I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

Quotes by Josh Groban

Everybody does things well in their own aspect. We're all different. We all have our plusses and minuses.

Quotes by Josh Allen

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Quotes by Josh Billings

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

He is great enough that is his own master.

Quotes by Joseph Hall

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

Quotes by Joseph Butler

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Quotes by Joseph Butler

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Quotes by Joseph Chilton Pearce

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Quotes by Josef Albers

Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while.

Quotes by Jose Feliciano

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

Quotes by Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Quotes by Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Quotes by Jose Bergamin

Every relationship stands on its own, and it's successful or not successful for its own reason.

Quotes by Jordan Rodgers

I feel I'm my own quarterback and have accomplished my own things.

Quotes by Jordan Rodgers

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

Quotes by Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

It's possible to make things that aren't just money-makers. Something wonderful for its own sake.

Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.

Quotes by Jonathan Shapiro

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang.

Quotes by Jonathan Miles

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

Quotes by Jonathan Miles

Every film deserves its own unique look.

Quotes by Jonathan Demme

I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.

Quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby

I promote my own self-hatred.

Quotes by Jonathan Ames

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

Quotes by Jon Voight

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.

Quotes by Jon Landau

'Black Panther' is a phenomenon - it is all right in its own thing.

Quotes by Jon M. Chu

Everybody's got their own situation and their own needs.

Quotes by Jon McGregor

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

Quotes by Jon Hopkins

I'm extremely confident. I do believe my own hype. And I'm working towards making it true.

Quotes by Jon Jones

I think any band we played with would be a weird match. We're on our own, a little out there, but it's a good thing. I think we're complimentary to each other.

Quotes by Jon Crosby

Everybody is going to have their own issues that they bring to the table, but for me, the best thing is just giving over to whatever is there and trusting whatever is there and enjoying it.

Quotes by Johnny Simmons

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

Quotes by Johnny Vegas

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

Quotes by Johnny Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

Quotes by Johnny Evers

Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.

Quotes by Johnny Flynn

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

Quotes by John Zorn

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Quotes by John Wooden

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

Quotes by John White Geary

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

Quotes by John Vane

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Quotes by John W. Foster

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

Quotes by John W. Rogers, Jr.

Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.

Quotes by John W. Snow

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Quotes by John Tyndall

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Quotes by John Updike

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Quotes by John Updike

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Quotes by John Updike

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

Quotes by John Updike

I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

Quotes by John Van Hamersveld

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

Quotes by John Tesh

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

Quotes by John Thorn

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Quotes by John Thorn

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Quotes by John Thorn

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

Quotes by John Stuart Mill

Obama hasn't passed a budget in four years, he's a wuss. Obama has rejected the recommendation of his own Simpson-Bowles, on a budget package, he's a wuss. He wants to lead from behind, he's a wuss!

Quotes by John Sununu

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

Quotes by John Spratt

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

John Steinbeck

Pepsi is the second-most-recognized beverage brand in the world after Coke, and eighteen of PepsiCo's other brands, which include Tropicana, Gatorade, and Quaker Oats, are billion-dollar businesses in their own right.

Quotes by John Seabrook

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Quotes by John Selden

More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

Quotes by John Shadegg

For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

Quotes by John Shadegg

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Quotes by John Shelton Reed

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

Quotes by John Scarlett

Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.

Quotes by John Schnatter

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

Quotes by John Roberts

Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.

Quotes by John Rocha

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

Quotes by John Rzeznik

Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.

Quotes by John Requa

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

Quotes by John Prendergast

It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.

Quotes by John Quincy Adams

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.

Quotes by John Quincy Adams

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

Quotes by John Philip Sousa

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Quotes by John Piper

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Quotes by John Norman

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

Quotes by John Olver

Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

Quotes by John Muir

Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

Quotes by John Murray

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

John Milton

No man is a hero in his own country.

Quotes by John Monash

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