Will Durant Quotes
Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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I studied Morse code.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
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Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one.
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I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue.
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... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.
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Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
