Nathan Eldon Tanner Quotes
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD's of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let's be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!
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I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.
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Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.
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Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. That's contamination of the political system.
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You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
