Charles Darwin Quotes
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
Quotes to Explore
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.
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This is no lazy mans field.
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I knew it the first of the summer, I knew it the same at the end, That you and your love were plighted, But couldn't you be my friend?
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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
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The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive, is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
