Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
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I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.
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Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
