Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
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When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.
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When I go to New York, all the skycaps want my autograph.
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I save the rage for the stage.
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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
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It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
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We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do.
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When in doubt, punt!
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Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.
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In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.
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George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
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To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
