George Saintsbury Quotes
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
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You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.
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I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
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In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.
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I mean, nobody's ever thrown a big rock at me or my friends, but we're all pretty tough guys and could probably handle it.
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Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
