William Blake Quotes
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
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Islam will be what Muslims make of it. And it is the sum total of the interpretation that Muslims give to it.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.
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Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.
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Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me.
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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
