William Gilmore Simms Quotes
It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.
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My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
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If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.
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As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then when you're with your home girls, you're saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you're speaking the way that you're comfortable with.
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It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
