William Congreve Quotes
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
Harmony Korine
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
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As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
Dane Cook
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
Fiona Apple
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
Becky Lynch
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
Halima Aden
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I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
Florence Nightingale
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I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender
Jackson Browne
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
Ze Frank
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
Anne Sexton
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Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
Matt Taibbi
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I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
Lydia Lunch
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel
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The ads that podcasts manage to sell tell you a lot about who they think is listening. They include services that promise to make your investment portfolio ethical, deliver exotic, ready meals to your home, or guarantee better sleep thanks to luxury bed linen.
David Hepworth
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I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.
Elena Ferrante
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
Ezra Pound
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Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.
Jim Gerlach
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The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.
Elliott Abrams
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve