Zebulon Pike Quotes
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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My mother is my hero.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
