Ariel Durant Quotes
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
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My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.
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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
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Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.
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I secretly want to shave my head.
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
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I play a nobody in Japan.
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I would support requiring an eligibility certificate for long-gun purchases because a permit gives the impression that someone could carry it loaded outside the home. That's not what we want to do.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
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My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.
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I think most important, you need to have the compassion and caring for helping to protect vulnerable people.
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I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.
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As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.
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I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
