Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Many support what I am doing.
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.
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To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
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The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.
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I'm very visual when I write and get a lot of inspiration from scrolling through Tumblr or Pinterest. I have picture folders to most of the songs I've written. It would be cool to release it as a book one day!
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I love my job and I think my job is hard, but also, my job is such a privilege.
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I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'
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We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives.
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
