My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.


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JOHN THORN
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JOHN BARROWMAN
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON
There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS
Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE
I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw...
JOHN BOLTON
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '...
JOHN BOLTON
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ...
JOHN BOLTON
There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
JOHN BOLTON
North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON
I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON
I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON
Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON
Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t...
JOHN BOLTON
There is no such thing as the United Nations.
JOHN BOLTON
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States...
JOHN BOLTON
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuin...
JOHN BOLTON
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing ...
JOHN BOLTON
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 ...
JOHN BOLTON