Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?
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Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you really work hard.
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One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
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He held her face in his hands, and stared into her eyes, and said that she was his for only a while anyway, and that it wasn’t his going to Cranwell that would split them up. “You’re destined for greater things, Susannah Hammond. I see it in you. You’re so clever, so bright. So beautiful. So special. I’m not any of those things. Except when I’m flying, maybe. Down here, I’m ordinary. I’m going to be just a memory for you. A sweet one, I hope. Happy. But just a part of your past. I might be good enough for now, but I’m not good enough forever. Not for you.
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
