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I had never taken acting at Brown to be the beginnings of a career. I always did it just for fun. — John Krasinski

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies. — John Mason Brown

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass

These men are all talk. What we need is action - action! — John Brown

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. — John Mason Brown

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. — John Dryden

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. — John Mason Brown

Processes don't do work, people do — John Seely Brown

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives. — John Mason Brown

Everything good is good because of the love it contains. — John K. Brown

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose. — John Brown

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. — John Mason Brown

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. — John Fugelsang

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. — John Brown

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action! — John Brown

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. — John Mason Brown

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. — John Mason Brown

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. — John Mason Brown

Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. — John Mason Brown

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. — John Sergeant Wise

Hamlet could not possibly have been written by Hamlet. — John Russell Brown

People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave... — Annie Brown

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. — John Sergeant Wise

MYTH 280. | Spaghetti originated in Italy. Spaghetti originated in China. Magellan tasted it on his travels in Asian and brought — John Brown

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. — John Brown

The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future. — John Mason Brown

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young. — John Brown

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth. — John Brown

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles! — John Mason Brown

People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters. — John Seely Brown

First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox. — John K. Brown

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul. — Scatman John

And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died. — Henry David Thoreau

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. — John Mason Brown

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice! — John Brown

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them. — John Mason Brown

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself. — John Seely Brown

We have reached a place too dark to see, so we shall go together. — John Gregory Brown

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth. — John Mason Brown

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks. — John Seely Brown

To sell John Brown what John Brown buys, you've got to see things through John Brown's eyes. — Anonymous

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning. — John Seely Brown

The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something. — John K. Brown

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes ... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. — John Mason Brown

There are those who act," he said. "And those who are acted upon. I'm not ever going to leave you in a position again where you have no choice. — John D. Brown

Find the problem, find the story. — John Brown

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon. — William Lloyd Garrison

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. — John Mason Brown

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her. — John Searles

All three explanations - eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness - are descriptions of the same reality. — John K. Brown

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day. — John Brown

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. — John Mason Brown

Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all. — John K. Brown

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. — Ogden Nash

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. — John Brown Gordon

The intent and not the deed
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly
Does greatly. — John Brown

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. — John Mason Brown

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone. — Henry David Thoreau

That which isn't love, isn't god. — John K. Brown

Ringo Star's, real name is Richard Starkey. — John Brown

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better. — John Mason Brown

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own. — John Mason Brown

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. — John Mason Brown

Mars is not an aesthetic God. — John Brown Gordon

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man. — Emma Goldman

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows. — John Seely Brown

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule. — John Brown

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others. — John Brown

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history. — John Brown Gordon

If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate. — John K. Brown

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever. — John Mason Brown

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes. — John Mason Brown

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation — John Seely Brown

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. — John Brown Gordon

It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. — John Mason Brown

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race. — John Brown

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. — John Mason Brown

What we need is action - action! — John Brown

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam

You were born an original, don't die a copy — John Mason Brown

I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia. — John Brown

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! — John Brown

America is a land where men govern, but women rule. — John Mason Brown

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself. — Tony Horwitz

Love isn't self-centered, even at the supreme scale. — John K. Brown