William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
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It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
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I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
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As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
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We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
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Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.
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They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
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Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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Being impregnated by an alien and giving birth. It'd be awful to give birth to a freak so you'd have to hide it away from everyone but still bring it up as your own.
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It does not mean you're broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don't hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it's available, go to a therapist.
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[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.
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The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries: There is no Kurdish state. But that shouldn't prevent the Kurds from continuing to develop their own institutions. Still, the best thing for them would be to remain a part of Iraq, but in return we must treat them with respect - their nationality, their language and their culture.
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God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
