Benjamin Peirce Quotes
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
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An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
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There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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I was a mess when the movie Into the Forest ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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Presenting feels like it did 50 years ago, but the pay's a lot better.
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Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
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What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
