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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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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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Incidentally, common sense is not so common and is the highest praise we give to a chain of logical conclusions.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
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People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
