James Henry Breasted Quotes
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.
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You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.
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How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.
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Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.
