Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
Dan Carter
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
Ike Skelton
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
Quincy Jones
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I'm not a sun person.
Laura Prepon
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
Nancy Gibbs
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I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
Garry Shandling
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Orhan Pamuk
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Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
Carli Lloyd
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
Randal Kleiser
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I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.
Iggy Azalea
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
Rachel Corrie
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
Campbell Scott
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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
Bill Ayers
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There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.
Mark Spitz -
Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.
Jenna Wortham
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You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.
Kenny Rogers
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Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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Education is preparation to live completely.
Herbert Spencer