Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
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I'm a comedian, not a politician.
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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
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Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.
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There is no standard way of using painting techniques.
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He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.
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If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.
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I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
