Abigail Adams Quotes
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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I always played to win.
Hansie Cronje
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
Macy Gray
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
Hailey Bieber
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking
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Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Jack Horner
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
Eddie Trunk
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
Aaron Ciechanover
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
Idris Elba
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
Tad Williams
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
Walter O'Brien
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I did two or three plays every summer.
Dabney Coleman
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
Park Chan-wook
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
Gary Sinise
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright
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My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.
Kimberly Guilfoyle
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A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
Georges St-Pierre
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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
Branford Marsalis
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams