Charles Ives Quotes
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
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They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
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Great deeds and utterances are now so diluted with printer’s ink that we can no longer find a sage or saint. Our worthiest men are exhibited and bewritten until they are made as uninteresting as clowns.
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Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.
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The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.
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Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
