Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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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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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
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The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
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In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.
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Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
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I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.
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I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.
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Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.
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When 'Dynasty' was on, it was a huge deal when Diahann Carroll came on the show. That was groundbreaking.
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The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
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As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.
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The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.
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It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.
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By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
