Blake Farenthold Quotes
I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
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Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Dylan can do no wrong.
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Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.
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I eat less, stretch, and work out.
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I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
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The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.
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What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves-the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless ?
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...with Indians there is an unhealthy love of the law...
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The booby father craves a booby son,And by Heaven’s blessing thinks himself undone.
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The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm.
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We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits.
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All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of it’s difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for true, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole.
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I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.
