Isaac Watts Quotes
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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The show has become my therapy.
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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As that the walls worn thin, permit the mindTo look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1
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People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That's the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people.
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Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.
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Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.
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In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
