Bertrand Russell Quotes
If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.
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I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.
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Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
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I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.
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If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.
