Baron d'Holbach Quotes
We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
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Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
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Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.
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I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, 'I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate,' and I said, 'But Kathleen, that means you're going to have to read!'
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When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.
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I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I came from an era when we didn’t use electronic instruments. The bass wasn’t even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
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I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.
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It's hard arriving just before the game, but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to not think about being fatigued or anything, just to be ready to help the team.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
