Peter F. Hamilton Quotes
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
Warren Beatty
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
Oscar Isaac
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
Frances Perkins
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
Vikram Chatwal
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I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
Karl Malone
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I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.
Raekwon
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
Victoria Abril
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
LaToya London
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
Van Morrison
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
Babasaheb
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You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
Randy Pausch
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Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.
A. E. Housman
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We can freely acknowledge the tremendous struggle ahead of us, and yet choose to remain decidedly optimistic, and to work from a fundamental belief in the possibilities of the future. … Every time we explain how a better future might be built, we redraw the boundaries of the possible.
Alex Steffen
