C. V. Wedgwood Quotes
History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
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If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
