Cecil Rhodes Quotes
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
Quotes to Explore
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I love to write.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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I think we need to update the existing laws to create uniformity across the states so that all people with mental illness who find themselves in the criminal justice system for committing horrific crimes will be treated exactly the same.
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Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels.
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I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which I pine -I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours confine;Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine !. . .Oh, were I sinking to the grave I often ask in vain,And welcome Death stood by to loose the wasted captive's chain - Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to life again!
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I'm a musicologist, and I know that this is very rare. As a matter of fact, it's unique in the history of jazz, this group that I'm performing with, this trio. No other trio does these kind of things. I mean, it's an experience you will only hear with this group. It's a one-time experience in life, if you don't come back and hear us again, which would be different anyway.
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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
