William Wilberforce Quotes
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
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My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.
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One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
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Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.
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As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
