William Penn Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick -
For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
Imelda Staunton -
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
Carlos Fuentes -
I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.
Mac DeMarco -
It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Carl Reiner
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
Eartha Kitt -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Carl Honore -
It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
Dan Coats -
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Olesya Rulin
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Candice Millard -
There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
I. King Jordan -
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
Hamish Linklater -
The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
Obie Trice
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I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that.
Frankie Cosmos -
I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.
Lynn Redgrave -
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
Robert Wyatt -
In the words of Euripides, ‘those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad’.
Catharine Arnold -
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
William Penn