Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
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Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
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I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
