Margaret Cavendish Quotes
Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
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Science is a form of arrogance control.
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Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.
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Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.
