John Muir Quotes
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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I was a tomboy.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.
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Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
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True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
