Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
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I've always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
