Alexander Pope Quotes
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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I like to improvise.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.
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I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
