William Penn Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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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.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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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.
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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.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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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.
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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.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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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.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!
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He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. (On Ronald Reagan)
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Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.
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To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
