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Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
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I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
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I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.
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I drink seven Coca-Colas a day. Regular Coke, which is really bad for me.
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I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.
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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
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I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.
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I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.
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I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
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Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.
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I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.
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I don't remember my life before I had children.
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Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
