Alfred Nobel Quotes
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There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'
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In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.
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The true poem rests between the words.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
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What kids see on the internet is mostly pornography and that is dangerous. The internet is being used as a platform for misinformation, selling spurious drugs and for terrorist activities. It is a great medium but being misused to bring about disaffection among people.
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We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.
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Let Saigons be bygones / Don't you blow this world in two.
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A world where nothing is had for nothing.
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For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.
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You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
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You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
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Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.
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Alfred Nobel, 'Aphorisms by Alfred Nobel'. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014.
