Edward Lear Quotes
His mind is concrete and fastidious,His nose is remarkably big;His visage is more or less hideous,His beard it resembles a wig.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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I'm a great admirer of the Trump change of mind about China and making an ally out of China instead of screaming about their trade.
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And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.
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There's nothing more fun than sitting in a circle playing with people who are really into it.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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His mind is concrete and fastidious,His nose is remarkably big;His visage is more or less hideous,His beard it resembles a wig.
