Thomas Starr King Quotes
It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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Candy apple red is my favorite color. It's a powerful color to wear. It's always been that way - I've always been really attracted to that color.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
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At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
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I want everybody to be on an even playing field.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.
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It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
