Jeremy Bentham Quotes
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I love New York.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn't include government-run health care.
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You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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Tiffin, what
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
