Edmund Waller Quotes
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
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I loved being in a band.
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
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Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
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Everyone is going to die.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
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I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
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Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
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I was a sitting target, in a way, for anybody who wanted to make some kind of headline. … I certainly never supported the Fatwa, but when I was asked about … the actual principle of blasphemy and capital punishment, well, like the Bible, I said, 'You know, yeah, it's there, it's in the Koran.' And I couldn't deny that.
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Principle is a passion for truth.
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What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?
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One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
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I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
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The yielding marble of her snowy breast.
