William Shenstone Quotes
Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.
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I play golf - badly.
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It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.
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By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention
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The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.
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Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide… If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
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There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
