Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
Ted Lindsay
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Natasha Richardson
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Mallory Ortberg
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
Adam Michnik
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Quincy Jones
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
Felicity Jones
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
E. O. Wilson
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
Earl Campbell
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
Tammy Duckworth
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
Adam Green
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
Tadashi Yanai
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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
Gene Sharp
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Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.
Diora Baird
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The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
James Surowiecki
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I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.
Asif Kapadia
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Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
Thomas Carlyle