Pierre Bayle Quotes
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
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It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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'I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don’t know about.'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
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If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
