Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes
It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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The successful men I admired all built their bodies.
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You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.
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I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.
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I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.
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It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.
