Philip Larkin Quotes
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.
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I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?
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We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
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But superstition, like belief, must die...
