Edmund Burke Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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A lot of people ask how I ended up doing classical music given that I'm in a rock band. The truth is that it's the other way around. I was trained as a classical musician and then started playing in a rock band later.
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward – I ask for no reward – only to live & to hear my work.
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Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
