“I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.”
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“I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.”
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“I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.”
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“Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
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“In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.”
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“Excuse Me While I Succeed!”
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“If the coach on the sidelines is not that strong, transmitting the kind of spirit he has, players won't always handle it well. Life becomes difficult. But, with Mourinho, everything is good....”
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“Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way t...”
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“Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.”
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“Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.”
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“Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.”
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“Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such a...”
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“With the sincere devotion of our employees, Samsung has achieved stellar performances since its foundation.”
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“I don't go out there and put on any sort of front for people. If I'm in a good mood, I appear in a good mood on TV, and if I'm in a bad mood, I just go out there and look like I'm in a bad m...”
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“Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern making. Yet the carvings of New Ireland hav...”
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“Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.”
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“We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent.”
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“Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.”
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“It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.”
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“Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!”
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“I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.”
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“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.”
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“Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.”
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“There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.”
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“Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a cha...”
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“Who says men don't cry? I used to sob like a baby as I was forced to move around in a wheelchair for two months after twin surgeries on my toes.”
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“Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to ha...”
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“There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helpl...”
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“When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.”
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“As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.”
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“Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like...”
“I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought.”
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“I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.”
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“The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there.”
“To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'”
“When I was eight, my parents saved up to send me to private school, but I found it so tough that I often escaped through the back fence to walk the four miles to my father's office in Windso...”
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“I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.”
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“I'm a very vicious critic of myself.”
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“I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.”
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“I think Donald Trump has a significant number of issues where he is not a Republican.”
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“I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every,day. You're kin...”
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“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.”
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“If you prepare for old age, old age comes sooner.”
“With 'Space Dandy,' you've obviously got your image of the space and 80s music, and blending them together is how I created it.”
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“Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.”
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“I like a kind of dark, bronze-y brown smoky eye with maybe some mascara, some contouring and stuff, but I don't like wearing black or pinks. I like it more tonal.”
“My identity was tangled up in the parts that I had played since I was a child. I would go through my closet and only see audition clothes: Brie looking older, Brie looking '60s, Brie looking...”
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“The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purpo...”
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“That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.”
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