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I mean, we were hearing music all the way through the islands. You know, we, when we visit the islands, of course… — John Musker Copy Share Image
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And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
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One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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Jewish women are very exciting, as exciting sexually as any other group. Even so, my advice to a young man marrying a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests… I think the employer who declines to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
What's neat about TV is you get really rich, an opportunity to tell really rich stories over the course of 20 hours.… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well-- Look to the helm, good master--many… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you start projecting on the future - "Oh my God, I gotta do this and I'm not there yet" - well,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the… — Frances Xavier Cabrini Copy Share Image
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I felt, you know, body and soul, as it were. But, of course, I mean, I - at that age, I didn't… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject,… — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
Chinese movies are not just about making Chinese local movies. It's about the Chinese money, the Chinese creativeness participating in a global… — Bruno Zheng Wu Copy Share Image
Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great… — Asher Monroe Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image