Thomas More Quotes
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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I think it's a wonderful honor and privilege to be called that. But you do it to his face. I ain't doing it.
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The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.
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Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.
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But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly
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They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
