Dennis Prager Quotes
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
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The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.
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I'm a comedian, not a politician.
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It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.
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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
