Jeremy Bentham Quotes
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
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Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
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Our politics is about people not flags.
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Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
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Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
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'A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it.' De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should 'pay deserved tribute to the legendary service of a great soldier'.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
