Demosthenes Quotes

The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.

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  • Up
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• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
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  • Sell

• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
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• To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
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• My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

  

  Halle Berry
  • World
  • Mother
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• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
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  • Spring

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Always
  • Admit
  • Coconut

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
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• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
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• I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fun
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• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
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• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
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  • Way
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• You don't know where life takes you.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Head
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• I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Children
  • Boredom
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• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • School
  • Home
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• People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • World
  • Champ

• If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Work

• The president of the United States, the most radical president in American history, has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people. He has said, 'I run a machine, I own Washington, and there's nothing you can do about it.' Now, that's where we are.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • American
  • History

• The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.

  

  Demosthenes
  • World
  • Different
  • Reality