David Hume Quotes
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless.
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I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
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Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
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378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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Patrick imagined Kay’s father sunk in the back of the car, his eyes glazed over with exhaustion and his lungs, like torn fishing nets, trawling vainly for air.
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Inanity is pretending that Afghanistan will go away if we leave.
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I love Cadillacs and name them after birds.
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I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
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I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.
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I feel like Valleywag has been different things with different writers over the years. Up and down. I think it's at their best when they get a legitimate scoop, like when someone leaks them documents. I feel like we could do more of that, breaking stories.
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If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.
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...when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.
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Avarice, the spur of industry.
