Bertrand Russell Quotes
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
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While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.
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Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
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People who love what they do get after it every day.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.
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The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.
