Franz Boas Quotes
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.
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ACT UP was trying to explain to Americans that AIDS could affect all of us: that health care that ended once your disease was expensive could affect more than gay men with HIV or AIDS. We were trying to tell them about the future - a future they didn't yet see and would be forced to accept if they failed to act.
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I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.
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I always say that when you have friends that are girls, you tell each other everything.
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
