L. Neil Smith Quotes
The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them. It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
Maika Monroe
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
Caitlyn Jenner
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
Umberto Eco
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
E. O. Wilson
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I would like to have a rematch against Fabricio Werdum.
Fedor Emelianenko
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I love singing as much as I love acting.
Taron Egerton
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken
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'At Random' ran on Saturday nights for as long as the conversation was still lively. Sometimes, I'd finish way after midnight, then hop a plane for whatever city I was working a football game that Sunday.
Irv Kupcinet
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The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Adam Hochschild
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If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
Ingmar Bergman
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I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.
Antony Beevor
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The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.
Janet Malcolm
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Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The Bill of Rights isn't about us, it's about them. It isn't a list of things we're permitted to do, it's a list of things they aren't allowed even to consider.
L. Neil Smith