Bertrand Russell Quotes
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
Iggy Azalea
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
Imogen Poots
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
Wanda Sykes
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
Dan Castellaneta
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. Wong
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
Pankaj Mishra
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart Tolle
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
Natalie Dormer
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
Barbara Windsor
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
Gary Zukav
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
Karel Capek
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
Maajid Nawaz
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
Sam Trammell
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As a child, I always wanted to be a race car pilot.
Ajith Kumar
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I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
Mary Oliver
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell