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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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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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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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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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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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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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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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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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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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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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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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
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It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to what is narrowly called a ‘scientific’ approach. You will have to be able to have a chance of feeling that the interpretation you give is a beautiful one, or that you get a beautiful response from the patient. This aesthetic element of beauty makes a very difficult situation tolerable.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
