Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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I cannot believe that 'Pinocchio' is over yet, and I always think about so many great memories that I made while playing in the drama.
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I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.
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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.
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My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.
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In the shorter term where there has been some concern on those numbers there could be little bit of a relief rally.
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If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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Every human being is the natural guardian of his own importance.
