Samuel Pepys Quotes
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Venus favors the bold.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
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Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
