T. H. White Quotes
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
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Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
