African Spir Quotes
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow
Quotes to Explore
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.
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To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
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Reason is lost reasoning.
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Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.
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It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.
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Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
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A man once said: Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares. Another said: I bet that is also a parable. The first said: You have won. The second said: But unfortunately only in parable. The first said: No, in reality: in parable you have lost.
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The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.
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A dark object seen against a bright background will appear smaller than it is. A light object will look larger when it is seen against a background darker than itself.
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To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow
