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Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race. Jacques Barzun
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point. Lady Gaga
I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.-Lindo Amy Tan
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives. Rachel McAdams
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A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away. Dennis Miller
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. James Russell Lowell
If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks". Fulton J. Sheen
Jim Rohn quote: "Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a..."
Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student. Jim Rohn
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Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me. Bret Easton Ellis
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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. George Orwell
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So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts. Ewan McGregor
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. Aldo Leopold
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust. Ryszard Kapuscinski
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? George Orwell