Thomas More Quotes
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians. So why is marijuana outlawed while politicians are still legal?
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.
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It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.
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The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
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I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
