Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
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I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you're doing at all times - it can be a little stressful at times.
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I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'
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I always try to have a positive and warm intention that is not about me. It is easy to make everything about yourself. But you take the weight off when we make it about the audience. It's about the joy you can bring to somebody else instead of the joy that you get from doing it.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
