Isaac Newton Quotes
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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They are smoking crack.
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The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
