Homer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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My son is a hip-hop producer.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.
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What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)
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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.
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The United States follows the pattern of men taking the financial risks even within a given field. Women physicians are three times as likely as men to work for the government or an HMO; men physicians are much more likely to be self-employed in a solo practice.
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America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.
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Wine gives strength to weary men.