Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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I'm trying my best.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
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You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.
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When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'
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Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?
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Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.
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Cruel necessity.
