William Wilberforce Quotes
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
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So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.