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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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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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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Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
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I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
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If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
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I've had a very long career of being conservative.
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When you're writing a song, you have to know two things. You have to know who you are, and you have to think about other people.
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What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.
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I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
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Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
