Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes
I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
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As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't. You just say, am going to allow the law take its course; I am going to empower the agencies which has been set up for such specific purpose of stemming the corrupt out flow of resources from this nation and don't even talk to me about corruption beyond saying you going to strengthen existing institutions.
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I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.
