“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
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“I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.”
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“Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical...”
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“If you get Fight of the Night, there's a reason you got Fight of the Night: it's usually because you had that crowd on its feet, going crazy during the fight, almost like a professional wres...”
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“Go to a lake and sink your eyes. Find what is not reachable by your surface. Rein it free to the skies. See it reflected on the lake. You are a holder of beautiful hues. Don't hide them out...”
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“We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously...”
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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change...”
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“You need to trust To surrender To ask for guidance Go within for the answers They're within you You have the answers All you need do is ask”
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“When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress th...”
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“You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?”
“People who think love can happen twice, actually never fell in it the first time.”
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“When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend's mum's car, and drove ourselv...”
“Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of H...”
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“I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.”
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“As a devoted mother and private person, and with complete awareness that my daughter will one day be old enough to read the news about herself, I would only like to say that I will never, ev...”
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“Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied concept...”
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“There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.”
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“You can't tell my fans that there's a better rapper than Machine Gun Kelly... Hands down, there's no way I'm not in the top five.”
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“All great achievements require time.”
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“I don't foresee a future where people don't have some sort of phone that's like a computer. I don't foresee a future where those phones don't have cameras in them. That spells a future where...”
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“Politics is an ugly and thankless role.”
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“I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.”
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“It seems that laughter needs an echo.”
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“The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.”
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“I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.”
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“We applaud any company making business decisions that empower women.”
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“I am prepared to vote in support of a new military authorization that specifically authorizes U.S. military actions against ISIS. We must stand up against this vile enemy and protect United...”
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“Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.”
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“I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid o...”
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“When I was four years old, some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.”
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“The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.”
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“Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.”
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“Honolulu is a melting pot.”
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“Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel's defense.”
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“The man who leaves you is simply clearing the way for the one you deserve.”
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“One of our six key strategic priorities was the reinforcement of all professional staffing and solutions business.”
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“'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.”
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“We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.”
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“The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension a...”
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“I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get t...”
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“Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.”
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“If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this wou...”
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“Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidab...”
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“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”
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“To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating...”
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“Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.”
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“I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good...”
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“Rudeness is not having fun, and if it is, it's at the expense of another person.”
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