Ryan Holmes Quotes
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
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Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
