Don Marquis Quotes
it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.
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Oh, baby don't give up on us.I know your heart is full of doubt,You don't need to be withoutThese loving arms.I'll hold you through your darkest hourI'll be using all my power,So I can reach you.Oh my love, don't give up on us.
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Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts
