William Penn Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.
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In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.
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The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.
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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
