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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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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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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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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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'Visitation' reflects the era of the absentee father; 'parent time' influences the re-emergence of the involved father. 'Visitation' reflects the destruction of the family; 'parent time' influences the reconstruction of the family. 'Parent time' influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.
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This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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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.
