Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.
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When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.
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If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
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I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.
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I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'
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If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.
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A death is never good. It's never pleasant. We can only ignore it, until our time comes.
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The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.
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The one complaint about the Internet that I wholeheartedly endorse is that most of these tools have been designed to peck at us like ducks: 'Hey, there's a new reply to your comment! Come look at it!'
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The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.
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If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
