Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the vast majority of Americans are Libertarian; they just don't know it.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
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His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society - more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. That was the grand vision that Nehru had.
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As withered weed through cruell winters tine, That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection, Liftes up his head, that did before decline And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.
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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
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One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.
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We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
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When I came to the states in the mid 1960s - 1964, 1964 - I didn't think I'd be here maybe a couple years, going to have a great experience in the United States and then go back to Canada. Well, here we are 40 years later.
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Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.
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There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names - calling the first class, Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theater.
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And brought of mighty ale a large quart.
