Hugh Lofting Quotes
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'
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I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.
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The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.
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Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.
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There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
