Homer Quotes
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.
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I'm a huge art buff.
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When you find a song that you love, you just have to do it - why would I try to match it? When I wrote more of the songs in the '90s - 'Nick of Time' and other songs I was surprised I came up with - it was because nobody else was saying what I wanted to say.
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Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.
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Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
