George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Quotes
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
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To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention.
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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.
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Confidence starts at home, and something my mother never did was look in the mirror and say she was ugly or fat.
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I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.
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Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we'll train, we'll advise, we'll mentor, and we'll fight, and we'll fight well.
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I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.
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The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.
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I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
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Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
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For me, Paralympic sport isn't about being the best human being. It's about being the best human being with that particular level of disability.
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Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.
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If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.
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The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
