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.Jeremy Bentham
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
Naima Adedapo -
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.
Florence Henderson -
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet -
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler -
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.
Cam -
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani
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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.
M. J. Rose -
I love New York.
Parker Posey -
I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
Sam Jaeger -
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.
Aaron Paul -
This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
Dan Rather -
Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
Dana Perino
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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.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman -
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
Warren Farrell -
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
Oscar Hijuelos -
I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
Fat Joe -
I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
Rachel McAdams
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
Mamie Gummer -
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
Edward Young -
I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.
Axl Rose Guns N' Roses -
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Hannah Arendt -
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
Jeremy Bentham