Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
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It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.
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In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.
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In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
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My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
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It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.
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Writing is still on my slate.
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You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.
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I'm almost a feminist and believe if a girl wants to do something, she should be able to do it in the same way that a man is able to, which is sometimes a problem in our country.
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I don't like talking about music.
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I get a lot of letters from prisoners. They say things you can't imagine.
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There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.
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There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.
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I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.
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Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to any student group that advances causes contrary to its mission.
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Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
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There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul
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While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.
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Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.
