Andrew Lang Quotes
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,
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Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.
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I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts-for support rather than illumination.
