Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. 'Hey, y'all, I'm cool with everybody.' That's my message.
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot.
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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
