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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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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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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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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I don't like going to dinner by myself; I'll call for delivery before I do that. It's awkward if you're at a table all alone. I'm sure nobody even notices, but there's something about it.
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If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
