William Graham Sumner Quotes
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
Harold Pinter
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
Hank Johnson
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
J. C. Ryle
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
Babasaheb
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I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.
Karan Johar
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
Tamsin Greig
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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
Madhuri Dixit
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You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
Dakota Blue Richards
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Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
Carly Fiorina
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
Sally Kirkland
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
J. Tillman
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Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.
Beau Willimon
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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
Lana Del Rey
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Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.
George Will
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
D. H. Lawrence
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Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.
William Empson
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
Taylor Swift
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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
William Graham Sumner
