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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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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We fall privately before we ever fall publicly.
R. C. Sproul
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We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.
Peter Schiff
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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
Thomas Hobbes
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There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.
Steve Albini Big Black
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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