Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Quotes
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.
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How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
