William Petty Quotes
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.
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Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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The people run the country. So if people didn't want you shooting in their neighborhood, there's no authority that can tell them they have to. That's why it's called the People's Republic of China.
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Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.
