David Hume Quotes
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
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I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
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νήπιος, ὃς τὰ ἕτοιμα λιπὼν ἀνέτοιμα διώκει
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Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
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Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
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I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.
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Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
