Andrew Dickson White Quotes
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
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I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.
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A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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The revolution was the culmination of a long social and economic development which… made the bourgeoisie the masters of the world.
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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
