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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When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
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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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The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
