Frederic Chopin Quotes
The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
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I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
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And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more— from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
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If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love - so what difference would it make?
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
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As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
