Brigham Young Quotes
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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My mom and I are very close.
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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People might not view me as competitive as I really am.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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During fashion week, I dream about fashion; afterwards, I dream about fishing. After fashion week, I always go fishing to wind down.
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The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
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Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
