Edmund Burke Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
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I am I plus my circumstances.
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People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
