Washington Irving Quotes
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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I believe in my music.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.
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It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.
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Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.
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I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
