Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Everybody has their struggles.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
