Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I love creative people.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'
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I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.
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Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.
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True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
