The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau
Recitation: by Male by Female
I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.
Jim Mattis
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You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.
John Collison
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
John Oliver
DemocracyAmericanBackboneInjury
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.
Sophie Hannah
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I'm proud of my life.
Minnie Driver
LifeProudMy Life
Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.
Lloyd Alexander
ChangeTimeBookLoseNeverNeed
We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.
Joyce Meyer
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Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
Jason Sudeikis
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No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
Denis Leary
TimeWifeAnimalRelationshipsFirst
Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.
Bruce Willis
FatherI AmMePerceptionImportant
It's important and good to email the Federal Communications Commission, and it's important and good to educate your friends via social media about what's happening. But in a representative democracy, the way to get policy changes is through elections.
Brian Schatz
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