Bertrand Russell Quotes
If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.
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As I refuse violence, I refuse to serve the violent.
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When the Lord of the Wedding Rings held his no-questions-asked press conference, he said he was sorely 'troubled.' At last, I thought, an admission. But no, he wasn't talking about his mental condition.
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If human nature were unchangeable, as ignorant people still suppose it to be, the situation would indeed be hopeless.
