Edmund Burke Quotes
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.
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They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
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A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
