William Blake Quotes
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
Victoria Pendleton
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
Dane Cook
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Gary Hamel
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk
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Young people want you to be real with them.
Magic Johnson
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I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
Kat Graham
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I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.
Natasha Trethewey
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I love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there, I could get anything on the menu and be totally happy.
Chris Massoglia
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It's fun to work with men. They don't bully you. On the contrary, they guide you and become one of your buddies.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
Claire Denis
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If there is one thing that resonates for women, it is that regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we want to be fully recognized for the breadth of our contributions.
Pramila Jayapal
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Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.
David Souter
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Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
Mary Berry
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Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.
Kathy Acker
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Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
John Webster
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Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
Jesse Kellerman
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Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.
Rachel Caine
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Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.
Erma Bombeck
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I've had so many injuries.
Patrick Swayze
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It's a big hindrance. If we were playing in the Maui Classic, we'd be in seriously bad shape. But we're not. We're starting at home. We think we can withstand these injuries.
Rick Pitino
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A dead body revenges not injuries.
William Blake