Walter Bagehot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I have a great office.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
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Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
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The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
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I think Miami is such a beautiful, sexy, gorgeous place. I love the people there.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
