Sam Weller Quotes
Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
