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I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. John Hurt

In economics, the majority is always wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics Wrong Majority Always

I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back. John Lanchester

Time You Down Back Spending Months Easily Horror Wrong Dead Because Get Going Ends Which Realising Then Novel

Most British tapas bars aren't bars at all. They're restaurants that specialise in tapas. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a bit different from the Spanish way of doing things, in which tapas is an adjunct to the drinks and the general vibe. John Lanchester

Nothing Way Bit Adjunct Restaurants General Drinks Wrong Most Doing Vibe Different Which Spanish Bars Things British

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right. John Lewis

Home You Something Wrong Feel Cannot Right

Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections. John Lithgow

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If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes. John Lithgow

The thing early on that you think is 'wrong' with you, that makes you not fit in with everyone else, becomes the key to your career as an actor. Start embracing it. John Lloyd Young

You Key Think Else Everyone Everyone Else Embracing Wrong Makes Becomes Fit Your Actor Thing Start Early Career

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling. John Lydon

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I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons. John Lydon

Think Something General General Public Wrong Public Icons Basically Need

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances. John Major

Circumstances Born Economic Wrong Euro

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. John Major

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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. John Maynard Keynes

Sometimes Out Promptly Wrong Being Found Harm

The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.' John McEnroe

Best Me Money Old South Africa Must Something Obscene Take Part Wrong Like Well Match Go Dollars Years South Offered Offering Did Just Africa Really Ever Play Thing Amount Million Million Dollars

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. John Oates

Me Stage Wrong Like Get Playing

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? John Robinson

You People Fear School Looking Else Took Everything Everything Else Kids More Columbine Wrong Instilled Feel Like Know Around Doing Off Frightening Committed Who Media

I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.' John Schnatter

Good You People Girl Example Control Think Resources Say Give Direction Lead Lead By Example Wrong Get Manage Them Right

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