Vivian Stanshall Quotes
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
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Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.
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I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
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This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.
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He really wanted it. He was really focused. That was probably the best I've seen him all year.
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An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
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If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.