Albert Benjamin Simpson Quotes
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I don't like singing before noon.
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Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.
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The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.
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Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
