John Vanbrugh Quotes
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.
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Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
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I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.
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Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.
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I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
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The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution.
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But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
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Working with Kano is cool, too: obviously, he's from the same scene, but we've never worked together on a track before, and where, like, better to do it than on a Gorillaz project?
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Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
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My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
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To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.
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Toby scored some huge goals for us as a freshman. I'm really looking for Toby to take some big steps this season.
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A slighted woman knows no bounds.
