Laurence Sterne Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
Palaniappan Chidambaram
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
Warren Spector
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
Carl Paladino
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I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
E. P. Thompson
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
Foster Friess
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
Earl Campbell
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
Samantha Morton
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Damien Hirst
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
Ira Glass
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Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies.
Mark Walport
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My normal life is I love to travel, and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader, I guess you could say: I'm a bit of a bookworm.
Alaina Huffman
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
Imran Khan
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
J. August Richards
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
Laurence Sterne