Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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I have worked with some great directors.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.
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If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.
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Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!
