Eugen Sandow Quotes
Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
Kate Hudson
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
Daniel Barenboim
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
Hanna Rosin
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
Larry Flynt
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
Jack Gleeson
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You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.
J. B. Smoove
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
Wallace Stevens
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Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
Wallace Stevens
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8) History never repeats itself.
Larry Niven
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.
Andrea Dworkin
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
Claude McKay
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'The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal...'(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)
Elie Wiesel
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.
Eliza Coupe
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When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.
Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
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I think when everyone found out I was Moana, we got banana bread practically every night of the week. Aside from that, it's been really normal!
Auli'i Cravalho
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Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.
Carolina Kluft
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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
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I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.
Kenko Yoshida
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
Wole Soyinka
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I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
Alice Sebold
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Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.
Eugen Sandow