Bryan Ferry Quotes
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
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Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman where he's talking about the Duke of Death that Richard Harris played, and he's basically demolishing this myth of this man very unwesternly – not what you expect in a western.
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Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
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It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.
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The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
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it does not obviate the responsibility for dealing with terrorism in their country.
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Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.
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Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
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The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
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Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.
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Liberalism developed flawless weapons aimed at achieving its straightforward alternatives, which was the basis for its victory. But it is this very victory that holds the greatest risk to liberalism. We need only to ascertain the location of these new, vulnerable spots in the global system and decipher its login passwords in order to hack into its system. At the very least, we must try to do so. The events of 11 September 2001 in New York demonstrated that this is technologically possible. The Internet society can be useful, even for those who staunchly oppose it.
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I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.
