Lyman Beecher Quotes
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
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Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'
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Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
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Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
