Edmund Burke Quotes
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I'm cranky.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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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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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
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The thing about Gambit is that he's a man who knows how to adapt to survive. He plays things by ear, depending on the situation, and never feels obligated to follow the rules, because the only rules that matter are his own sense of honor. Ultimately, that sense of honor includes 'doing no harm' - at least, not to the innocent.
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Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
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When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
