Ayn Rand Quotes
Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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It is when I am convinced about my character that I can do justice to that role.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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Those faithful Mormon pioneers ... were willing to put everything on the altar to sacrifice for and defend their God and their faith.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.
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Never demand of another that which would constitute his sacrifice to you. Never grant that which would constitute your sacrifice to him.
