Frederick Scott Oliver Quotes
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.
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So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.
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No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
