Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.
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I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
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It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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See the ball; hit the ball.
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My mother and father have been fantastic help and a huge support for me. Like any other family, though, we have our moments, living and working together.
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Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
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The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?
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No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
