William Godwin Quotes
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
Quotes to Explore
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.
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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
