Johnny Vegas Quotes
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
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It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
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Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?
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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
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Again and again the imaginary plan on which one attempts to build up that order breaks down and then we must try another. This imaginative vision and faith in the ultimate success are indispensable. The pure rationalist has no place here.
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Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
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I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.
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Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.
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I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.
