Rudyard Kipling Quotes
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
