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I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.


John C. Danforth

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TERRANCE HAYES Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.
DANIEL CLOWES Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.
GEORGE STEINBRENNER With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
PAULO COELHO Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.
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CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'
JULIA STILES Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
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JOHN C. BURTON We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
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JOHN C. SENALL Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
JOHN C. MAXWELL I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we&...
JOHN C. MATHER Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical ele...
JOHN C. MATHER I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
JOHN C. HAWKES Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vagu...
JOHN C. CROSBY I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
JOHN C. CALHOUN What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ...
JOHN C. REILLY In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I als...
JOHN C. MATHER The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's m...
JOHN C. REILLY There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and popula...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, po...
JOHN C. CALHOUN