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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
I have a very keen sense of smell and always associate certain people and places with particular fragrances. For me, nothing is… — Elizabeth Hurley Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of action movies, and there has to be a certain amount of emotion in the actual performing of… — Tom Noonan Copy Share Image
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, “I love you”, that's a lot.… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me. I think that… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
If everybody would agree that their current reality is A reality, and that what we essentially share is our capacity for constructing… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Suppose several boys are moving along a particular road and one boy falls into a drain, his dress and his body, become… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
I met Scarlett [Johansson] briefly, but Josh [Brolin] and George [Clooney], in particular, were so welcoming and so inclusive and really brought… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past...… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction,… — Samuel Hynes Copy Share Image
There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Our constitution should be inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
There is often with restaurant reviews in particular, I think, this kind of impulse to be deferential and bow down to the… — Pete Wells Copy Share Image
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image