A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
