William Howard Taft Quotes
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.
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I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.
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I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.
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The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character.
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Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
