Woodrow Wilson Quotes
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Woodrow Wilson
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
Dana Goodyear
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
Carice van Houten
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
Kate Dickie
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
Oscar Robertson
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'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.
Orson Scott Card
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Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
Cat Stevens
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
Ralph Ellison
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I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.
Katie Finneran
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The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
Claire Tomalin
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
Oscar Wilde
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
Laura Moser
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...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.
Nalini Singh
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Woodrow Wilson
