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John Lewis Politician
Grateful

“Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.”

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John Leo Journalist, Author
Angry

“You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.”

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John Leo Journalist, Author
Angry

“Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?”

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John Oliver Comedian
Angry

“I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.”

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John Oliver Comedian
Funny

“I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.”

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John Oates Musician
Creative

“We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.”

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Wise

“At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.”

John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Angry

“I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.”

John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Love

“No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.”

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Spiritual

“Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.”

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John Sexton Photographer
Inspired

“It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.”

John Shirley Author, Screenwriter
Philosophical

“I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.”

John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Grieving

“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”

John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Lonely

“But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.”

John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Philosophical

“The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.”