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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
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There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
Isaac Hayes
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
Randy Harrison
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.
E. B. White
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I want to be the most exciting fighter out there.
Urijah Christopher Faber
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It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one?
Elizabeth Berg
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In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.
Cristiano Ronaldo
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At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.
Carine Roitfeld
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During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.
Calvin Johnson
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Life is a challenge, we must take it.
Mother Teresa
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Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.
Kim Yuna
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O you've seen that man before his golden arm dispatching cards but now it's rusted from the elbow to the finger And he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter
Leonard Cohen
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I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
Mackenzie Davis
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
Parker Harris
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I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.
Billy Dee Williams
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On second handers: They are always concerned with people - not facts, ideas, work or production. What would happen to the world without those who think, work, and produce?
Ayn Rand
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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
Rumi
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Even a fool is wise after an event.
Albert Einstein
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'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.
Marianne Williamson
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West
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I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
John Cusack
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Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.
David Price