Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
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Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.
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What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
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There's no social media or Googling yourself. You only have to do it once to learn never to do it again.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax credits available to millions of households in the States that do not pay federal income taxes.
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Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
