Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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Nothing was more likely to aggravate the difficulties of the present situation than any suggestions that our ultimate objective was to unite France, Italy and ourselves against Germany.
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China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
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Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
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Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
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The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.
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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.
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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
