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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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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.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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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.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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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.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.
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Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.
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Those guys have been in the program now for two years, basically. They're not young anymore. We expect them to continue to develop. Just to be able to get their hands on the ball and make those plays speaks volumes about their ability to be playmakers.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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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.
