Thomas Hobbes Quotes
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Bork has essentially given up. I'm not ready to throw in the towel.
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I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity.
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It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.
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I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.
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You know you have a drinking problem when the bartender knows your name -- and you've never been to that bar before.
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There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
