R. Kelly Quotes
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
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The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
