Frances Burney Quotes
I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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True art lies in a reality that is felt.
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What I'm doing, with my image, I have my perfumes. I've had that for almost 20 years, and I have like 14, 15 different perfumes now.
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I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
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Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.
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I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.
