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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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 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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If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
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Revelation, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
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In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
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There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.
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Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
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The more things change, the more they are the same.
