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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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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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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Prague is the Paris of the '90s.
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I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
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The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.
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One of the challenges faced by the little press like Little Island Press is as always, tricking people into buying books. I'm told that the next generation will be more interested in "experiences" than in tangible objects like books. That's a pretty big challenge to a publisher of any size.
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People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
