Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
