John Stuart Blackie Quotes
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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I like the unknown. I like mystery.
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I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.
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When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.
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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
