Balian of Ibelin Quotes
Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
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I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.
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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
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Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.
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The way that I learned to be confident was I would ride the back of the city bus and sing very low.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power and the canon law.
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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
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Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
