David Livingstone Quotes
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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I've been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems as if he's been lashing out, you know, destroying cities, annihilating places. It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. If you look at the people who love God now, you know, if I was God, I'd need to destroy something.
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Art lies because it's social.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
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When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving.
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I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.
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I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
