Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Quotes
A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
