Florence Nightingale Quotes
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I get homesick.
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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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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
