Antoine Lavoisier Quotes
Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
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We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.
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Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.
