Herbert Spencer Quotes
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.
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Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
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I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
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I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.
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I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
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And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.
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The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.
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I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
