William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I want to have a long career.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
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If your inner voice is telling you that you can't paint, by all means, hurry up and paint and silence the voice.
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I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.
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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.
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There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
