Ben Jonson Quotes
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than 'Price' - the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It's an American institution!
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Advertisers now have a highly targeted opportunity for aligning their brands alongside the entertainment experience people are enjoying on YouTube.
Chad Hurley -
Nobody can ever take Michael Jackson's place, it's only one Michael.
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But from my grave across my brow. Plays no wind of healing now,. And fire and ice within me fight. Beneath the suffocating night.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
