Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
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People always want to doubt you.
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.
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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
