H. W. Brands Quotes
John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Word-for-word transcription of Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
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Camel caravans bear witness guns to Caesar. Hordes crawl and seep inside the walls. The streets flow stone. Life goes on absorbing war. Violence kills the temple of no sex.
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I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.
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For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.
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I eat healthy, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy myself. I eat ice cream and chocolate, as my metabolism is pretty fast because I work out so much.
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I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.
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A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.
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Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.
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Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
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It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.
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Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.
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I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of speech.
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If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.
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The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.
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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible.
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I have no agenda. I know what I love to do and that's my religion. That's what I recommend to everybody. I did not invent that very ancient idea: "Do what you love and you will never work in your life." It's the pure truth. I think it's also the goal of human existence to accumulate as much of that feeling as possible. You can find that concept in anywhere from yoga to Bible.
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I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.
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John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.
