Anne Royall Quotes
“I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.”
Quotes to Explore
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I am very much a Republican.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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People work hard.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.
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In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.
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In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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Social media... it's the future for the new generation.
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Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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There are outstanding issues that are being addressed. The separation of Indian nuclear facilities would be done voluntarily by us based on India's national interest.
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When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.
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Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
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“I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.”
