Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.
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It ain't what you do it's how you do it.
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I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.
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I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
