William of Occam Quotes
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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My thing is music, period.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
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Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you’ll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
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I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.
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Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
