William Penn Quotes
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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I have a couture body.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
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You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
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The shortness of the woman’s replies indicated that Emily was asking questions Miss Jesczenka didn’t particularly want to answer, but those were usually the questions that most needed to be asked.
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Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
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In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
