Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
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The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.
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People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
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You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.
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My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.
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I'm a Harry Potter fan.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.
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Only once in Chopin's music is there a direct reference to Bach, and that is, appropriately, at the beginning of his only educational work, the two sets of Etudes, Op. 10 and 25, and the three Nouvelles Etudes for Moscheles. In the first Etude, Op. 10, in C major, we find a modernized version of the Prelude no. 1 of the Well-Tempered Keyboard...
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
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In his owen grese I made him frie.
