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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People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
