Alfred Nobel Quotes
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
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Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends too soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
