Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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We're appreciated by fans because of the level of our craft. The songs speak to them in a personal way. And they do it in an artful (way) and honest way. That's why. But, I think that's true of anything that stands the test of time as our music has. And it also proves that the critics are wrong. In a great sense, it proves how short sighted and how prejudice critics generally are, or their taste rather than for what the quality of the music really is.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
