David Hume Quotes
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
Laura Dern
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
Wayne Dyer
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
Frances McDormand
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
Oliver North
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Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
Jackie Collins
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Taylor Swift
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
Gabriel Mann
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
Felicity Kendal
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
Ban Ki-moon
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
Katha Pollitt
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
Brown Campbell
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Ed O'Neill
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
Candis Cayne
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Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.
Billy Joel
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I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded.
L. Neil Smith
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.
Jane Lynch
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Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep.
Matthew Walker
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My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.
Mary Lou Jepsen
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
David Hume