William Ellery Channing Quotes
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to others, he is supplied with a large over-plus, so needs no farther care.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
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Unica bellipraemia civilis, victis donare salutem,perdidimus.
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
