William Graham Sumner Quotes
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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You've got to be realistic.
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As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
