Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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… the dogma that History is just 'one damned thing after another....'
