Mary Douglas Quotes
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S. National Socialism, but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.
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I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
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We are fighting a major internal war against terrorism in Northern Ireland, and need more troops in order to win it.
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
