Venerable Bede Quotes
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.
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Make way for the positive day.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
