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 starting point of all achievement is desire.
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You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
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At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
