Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
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You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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Sexual Personae seeks to demonstrate the unity and continuity of western culture - something that has inspired little belief since the period before World War I.
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The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.
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The Golden Gate wasn't our fault either, but we still put a bridge across it.
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For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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My characters are not thinking about the act breaks. They're thinking about what they need to do to move forward. As long as I focus on that, the story starts to progress. As soon as I think, 'We're 20 pages in, something better blow up,' we're in trouble.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
