Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
Damn you, knowledge! Ruining everything good, once again. Learning things is most inconvenient.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn't believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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Grishkin is nice: herRussian eye is underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
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Damn you, knowledge! Ruining everything good, once again. Learning things is most inconvenient.
