William E. Gladstone Quotes
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
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For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
