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 once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
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Our slender life runs rippling by, and glidesInto the silent hollow of the past;What is there that abidesTo make the next age better for the last?
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I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.
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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
