William Shenstone Quotes
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.
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I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
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As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
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Rules necessary for definitions. Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambiguous without definition; Not to employ in definitions any but terms perfectly known or already explained.
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Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didnt sing it for a while. Thats completely false. I am very proud of American Pie and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung American Pie for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.
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Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.
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One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
