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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When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.
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The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.
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You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.
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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
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Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!
