George Croly Quotes
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
Sam Brownback
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I think twerking is overrated.
Kate Upton
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
Nalo Hopkinson
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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Aaron Klein
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
Taylor Swift
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
Karl Pilkington
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
L. J. Smith
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
Victoria Pendleton
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I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
Wang Shi
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
Zach Galligan
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A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
Wayne Huizenga
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Wadada Leo Smith
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To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.
Viggo Mortensen
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What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.
Foster Friess
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
Magnus Carlsen
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Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
Stephen Sondheim
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How would you have us, as we are?Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?Our eyes fixed forward on a star?Or gazing empty at despair?
James Weldon Johnson
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I've been putting 100% of work into defense like I do hitting because that way I can help my team more.
Jose Altuve
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
Henry Kissinger
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How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
George Croly