V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I was a tomboy.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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But against this it is thus opposed: the Will of God is the Nature or the Essence of God, because for God the ""to be"" is not one thing, ""to will"" the other; and for that reason, just as there is one Essence of Three Persons, so also one Will. Therefore if God by nature is God, He is also by will God; and if the Word of God by nature is the Son of God, He is also by will the Son of God.
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I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.
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I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.
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When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.
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Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.
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The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
