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Thomas Paine Quotes

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: January 29, 1737 - June 8, 1809

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Best Government Evil Worst Necessary

Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.

Mattie Stepanek

Life Live Pain Me Celebrate Body

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

Simple Better Someone Hands I Can

I am overwhelmed with the love and affection of the people. Girls have written letters calling me their inspiration, which has touched my heart.

Love Heart I Am People Me Letters

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

Job Think Thought Acting Difficult

I just have one brother, younger than me.

Brother Me Just Than Younger

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

Jonathan Krisel

Good Comedy Tour Very Bands

You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.

Name You Things Interested Lot

With 'Haters Back Off,' I'm creating something that I want to make, and I'm not focused on, 'Is this gonna trend, is this gonna be popular?' I'm just focused on telling the story.

Colleen Ballinger

Story Haters Back Creating Want Off

I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek.

Brian K. Vaughan

Love Research Doing Geek I Love

My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

Brenda Brathwaite

Women Growing Up Strong Enough Find

I don't get described as necessarily being aggressive. I don't know if 'laid-back' is the word. I think, if anything, what I would want people to say about me is, 'I think he had guts.'

People Me Think Know Say Want

My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.

Love Wife Mind World Reading You

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