Herbert Spencer Quotes
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I don't want to be a bust.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
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I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
