Homer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.
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I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
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You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.
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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
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What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.
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I have a notebook of concepts. There are titles everywhere if you are looking for them. I pull from them. There is a secret list that I keep for myself about what I want to sing about, and those are the ones I know I am not going to give up for someone else.
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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
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I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
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I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.
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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
