Oliver Cromwell Quotes
The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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Trying to coordinate everything, it can be really hard to balance.
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Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy.
