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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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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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
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What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?
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It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.
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People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
