Antoine R. Ivins Quotes
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I wouldn't know how to retire.
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I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
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I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.
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Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.
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If we truly want to have world peace, we have to end human trafficking.
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I promise this, that if I am supported by our most invincible sovereigns with a little of their help, as much gold can be supplied as they will need, indeed as much of spices, of cotton, of mastic gum (which is only found in Chios), also as much of aloes wood, and as many slaves for the navy, as their Majesties will wish to demand.
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If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
