Lord Byron Quotes
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtleAre emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Death is better than slavery.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
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No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.
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Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtleAre emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
