William Booth Quotes
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
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The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
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We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.
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Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
