Edward Jenks Quotes
The progress of the nation in wealth and refinement, however, naturally brought with it an increase in the number of crimes, as the old definition of offences became inadequate.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
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I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
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There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women... As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.
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Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
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The progress of the nation in wealth and refinement, however, naturally brought with it an increase in the number of crimes, as the old definition of offences became inadequate.
