Saint Augustine Quotes
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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But please remember, especially in these times of group-think and the right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended.
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My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.
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So we remain, forever more, Immortal and Found.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
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Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
