Carroll Quigley Quotes
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
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There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.
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It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
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No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.
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Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
