Johann G. Seume Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
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I came from the theatre, which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second play 'Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got The Will?' for MGM.
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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
