James G. Frazer Quotes
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
Gavid Hood
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
Gary Neville
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
Mandy Moore
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
Harriet Tubman
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
Karl Pilkington
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I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.
Laura Trott
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For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
Gaby Hoffmann
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To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.
Eddie Trunk
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
Yoweri Museveni
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After having explained this division, I contend that no intelligent person can assume that any of the actions of God can be vain, purposeless, or unimportant. According to our view and the view of all that follow the Law of Moses, all actions of God are 'exceedingly good.'
Maimonides
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I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.
Wallace Stevens
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'Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….' He turned to me. 'But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.'
Wendelin Van Draanen
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
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If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
Linus Torvalds
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I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.
Jake Arrieta
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'It's a cookbook!'
Damon Knight
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Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.
John Darnielle
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My bed is actually two king beds put together.
Cindy Margolis
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Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.
Susan Holloway Scott
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The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.
James G. Frazer