Josiah Strong Quotes
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
