Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
M. J. Rose
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I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
Ralph Fiennes
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
Barack Obama
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama
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Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe,That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.
Oliver Goldsmith
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We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.
Rahul Gandhi
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
Kevin Smith
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Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Bertrand Russell
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O my child, who wronged you first, and beganFirst the dance of death that you dance so well?Soul for soul: and I think the soul of a manShall answer for yours in hell.
Arthur Symons
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What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!
Jane Austen
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This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs.
Jimmy Carter
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
Adam Smith
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I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.
Chance The Rapper
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
Patti Smith
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.
Lao Tzu
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They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.
Thomas Carlyle
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
Wallace Stevens
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Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention to his profession. Why do you think I do these incredible feats? To call attention to my profession!
Jack LaLanne
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Error is worse than ignorance.
Philip James Bailey
