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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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
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I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
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One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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The yielding marble of her snowy breast.
