Jimi Hendrix Quotes
The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
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I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
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The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.
