Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
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Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
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I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.
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The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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These aren't my rules. Come to think of it. I don't have any rules.
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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
