Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
N. T. Wright -
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius -
I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
Maisie Williams -
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
Kate Middleton -
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Pat Conroy -
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
Daniel Akaka -
My life is so full of sacrifices.
Zubin Mehta -
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. Wilson -
Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm kind of bored of and forgot about, and everything with Die Antwoord I really love. It's the first time I've made music where, even the first songs we made, I really adore all those songs, and I'm proud of them.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
Wale -
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
Viggo Mortensen -
Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
Ian Hacking -
I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
Zig Ziglar -
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
Garry Kasparov -
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
Eddie Murphy
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne -
I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics.
George Strait -
When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
Dale Carnegie -
We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.
Steve Jobs -
I am definitely a worrier.
Rachel Weisz -
Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift