Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I will continue to try and be innovative to keep it fresh for my fans.
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I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.
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Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
