William Penn Quotes
It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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It is a actor jobs to turn a pesnon who is not a fan into a fan.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.
