William Shenstone Quotes
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Everything is real on me.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
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As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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My brother never had me to dinner in his life.
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When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
