George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Quotes
The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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Even the ears must dance.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.
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I believe in doing what I am best at.
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
