Albert Schweitzer Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.
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If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.
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The good conscience is an invention of the devil.
