Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.
Quotes to Explore
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
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The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
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I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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I don't know anything about computers.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.
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My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.
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Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
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I used to like to come up with inventions because I hated working so much when I had my day job. I thought, 'All I need is a great idea, and I'm out of here.'
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I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.
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I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.
