Madame de Stael Quotes
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
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I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
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There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.
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A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.
Dito Montiel -
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
