Jock Sturges Quotes
As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Val Kilmer
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
Gary Lineker
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
Maajid Nawaz
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
Ira Sachs
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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
Yehuda Amichai
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund Waller
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
Ian McLagan Small Faces
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You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
Tan Le
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
Odeya Rush
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
Gail Collins
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The village idiots in her bed Never cared that her eyes were red Never cared that her brain was dead. In the hours that her face was alive It was a thing just to be by her side.
Edie Brickell
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I was patriarch To Elijah and Elijah. I was there at the crucifixion Of the merciful Mabon.
Taliesin
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Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
Ani DiFranco
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In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.
Ann Coulter
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader.
Bernard Baruch
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A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
Ellen Key
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
Erica Jong
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Christopher Lasch
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I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.
Joe Nichols
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When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
Pablo Picasso
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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.
Jock Sturges