Murray Kempton Quotes
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If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.
Elizabeth Hawes
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Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
George Eliot
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It is widely held among scholars that the Prologue is a preexisting poem that the author of John has incorporated into his work—possibly in a second edition.
Bart Ehrman
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It's a situation where we still have to sit and talk. It's not just my decision but I am very much interested in playing in the World Cup.
Brian Lara
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Whoever says I'm a one-hit wonder can go suck a dick.
Eamon Doyle
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I’ve got the machines. I’ve got the people. I’ve got all the materials I need. I know there’s a market out there, because the competitors’ stuff is selling. So what the hell is it?
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.
Charles William Eliot
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What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
Cavour
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When we in Russia establish law and order, when the country has an established independent judiciary, I will be the first to go to Brussels and Strasbourg and lobby for the law to be repealed, because we will deal with our scoundrels ourselves, and we won’t need any Magnitsky Law.
Boris Nemtsov
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He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
Peter O'Toole
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'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
Steve Martin
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We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.
Dallas Campbell
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Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
Michael Crichton
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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I plan to talk to a lot of people and structure my life in a way that might have a bit more flexibility and a lot more fun factor, ... I don't intend to rush (into a job). I have the luxury of time.
Andrew Heyward
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Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
TONY Wilson Musician
Hot Chocolate
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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
Eugene H. Peterson
