Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (Desi Arnaz) Quotes
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.
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'Here you see the pattern from which my great work is derived. It expresses the symbolic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratinjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities, with which you are possibly familiar.' <br.> 'Not in every aspect,' said Cugel.
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
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When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
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Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
