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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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
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If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They're not holding onto me. I can get away from them.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
