Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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I never had an ambition to go into modeling, originally. I still can't believe how quickly it all took off.
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I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
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Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
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When Prussia hurried to the field,And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.
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But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.
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Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
