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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There's something very strange about associating me with that prize. I had hoped for it in a more directed way as a journalist. Somehow as a journalist you know there are Pulitzers out there and you can work hard and get one. To win it for Fiction seems unbelievable.
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Accessibility is key. MMOs are great for traditional gamers who have a lot of time to become immersed in a world, but the mass market wants things bite-sized.
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I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.
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My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.
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Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
