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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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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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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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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There are many great fighters in the UFC; some of my favorites are Rodrigo Nogueira, Lyoto Machida, and B. J. Penn, but aside from these guys, the UFC has many great fighters in every division.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.
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What a privilege it is to be an American!
