Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me. Then when you see a film later, it can be infuriating, really disappointing. I've been very lucky, though, and so many of my early experiences were great.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
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The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
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When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.
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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
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I stay far away from political humor.
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God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.
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With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.
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The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.
