Kenny Rogers Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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When I graduated from college in 1996 and the Internet was taking off, I remember this feeling that there was an open range where anything could be built.
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The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
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Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... but a find; not a greeting... but a proclamation; not an outward fashion... but inward grace; not a day... but an eternity.
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I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichés, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.
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People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
