Edmund Burke Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
