Ezra Pound Quotes
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
Gary Lineker
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
Gary Ross
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
Mandy Moore
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
Carine Roitfeld
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
Barry Eisler
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
Taylor Lautner
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I walk beyond town, many of these nights, to stand under the high autumnal stars, look upward and wonder.
Poul Anderson
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I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago.
Kay Cannon
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Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people.
Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails
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I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.
Jane Pauley
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Small talk comes from small bones.
Ezra Pound
