Lin Yutang Quotes
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
Lin Yutang
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
Sam Hunt
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
Saffron Burrows
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
Garrett Hardin
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
Larry Brown
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Saffron Burrows
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
Fiona Apple
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
Paige VanZant
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
Lady Gaga
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Taylor Caldwell
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
D. H. Lawrence
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In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.
Kevin Macdonald
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Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
Antonio Porchia
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
Barack Obama
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The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
Lin Yutang
