William Bligh Quotes
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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The majority of the time I'm at home with my family, I play football three times a week.
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I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
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For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.
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Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.
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There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
