Thomas Starr King Quotes
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
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I love Al Pacino.
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.
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The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.
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Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...
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Programs like TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, formerly known as AFDC) and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. In effect, they create, as we have seen, future welfare recipients. Or tax spenders.
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I learned to find things to love about myself and to celebrate them.
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We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
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The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
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My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.
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I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes there is great frustration that arises out of the euro zone or out of the EU.
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What a privilege it is to be an American!
