James Stephens Quotes
We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
Kangana Ranaut
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
Nacho Figueras
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
Edgar Ramirez
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
Adam Beach
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
Wellington Mara
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
Jack Prelutsky
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
Barry White
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
Patricia A. Woertz
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
T. C. Boyle
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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.
Xi Jinping
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We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'
Chester Bennington Stone Temple Pilots
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
Zach LaVine
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In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
James Surowiecki
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I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.
Jeremy Sisto
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We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
James Stephens