Augustine Birrell Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson -
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama -
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones -
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
Umberto Eco -
I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
Barry O'Farrell
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali -
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim -
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin -
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
Rachael Ray -
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
Gabrielle Giffords -
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
Fareed Zakaria -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry
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The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted.
Kenneth Blackwell -
Water really does great things for my skin.
Jackee Harry -
Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
M. Scott Peck -
It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.
Beny Steinmetz -
I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
Augustine Birrell