Alexander Pope Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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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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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations.
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I think - actually, I know - that I am, without a doubt, the world's worst drummer.
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We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
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Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away!
