Quotes 141 till 160 of 483.
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right.
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
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I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
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I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
De slinger van Foucault (2007) 104 -
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
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I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
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I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
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I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
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I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.
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