Darrell Huff Quotes
A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.
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Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!
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I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.
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Our directives must be reassessed.
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No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.
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I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.
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I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
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The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal, or are they trying to tell us something we have repressed about ourselves, something we don't want to see, something about the darker side of the human condition itself?
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A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.
