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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Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.
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People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.
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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.