Edmund Gosse Quotes
He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.

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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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Not once did I feel pressurised that I was stepping into Mr. Bachchan's shoes. I don't say I didn't feel the pressure of starring in a remake of 'Zanjeer,' but somewhere, that worked to my advantage.
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The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.
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I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors. I tried to create a Hitsville on the West Coast.
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I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.
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I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.
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There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.
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Your circumstance is entirely hypothetical, and I'm quite clear it won't arise.
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Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.
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I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
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He had recognized, with reluctance, that holiness was not hereditary, but he continued to hope that it might be compulsive.