Will Durant Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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For me, I've learned if I want a very stable, normal relationship, where I'll be like, 'Okay, this is nice, I know what's going to happen in a month,' it's probably better to date outside the industry. But you can't help who you fall for. It's our dating pool.
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I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.
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We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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Then he rose and began to pace the room in an overwrought sort of way, like a zoo lion who has heard the dinner-gong go and is hoping the keeper won't forget him in the general distribution.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.
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When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
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I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals.
