Alphonse Karr Quotes
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
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I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
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Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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I think penguins are cute.
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Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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I'm a total performer.
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Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right. It means seeing our foreign assistance as part of our national security, not something separate, not charity.
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Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.'16
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For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
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The more things change, the more they are the same.
