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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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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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 starting point of all achievement is desire.
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
