All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.
Kevin Smith
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Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought.
Jim Mattis
FaithThoughtAmericaBackCountry
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats
AngelPhilosophyWingsWillClip
There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.
Robert Palmer
GoodMeStartDoneAnythingPretty
I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.
Andy Murray
TimeBestPlayPossibleOverYears
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an American every day, ordinary everyman, and as a result of that, played up his fumbling speech because it signified that he was a good guy. That is deeply and profoundly anti-intellectual.
Michael Eric Dyson
GoodDayAmericanSpeechResultUp
When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.
Amiri Baraka
Black And WhiteFightPeopleSaying
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
Sidney Altman
WorkOpportunityWaitingPhysics
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart Udall
SonBrotherAmericanLovingEarth
When you're growing up in Jamaica and you don't have much, and then you gain more and more... you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like.
Rohan Marley
PeopleGrowing UpYouGrowingKnow
It's a very lovely reputation to have - being a kind person. I try to live up to the fact that people think that about me.
Josh Gondelman
LivePeopleMeReputationThinkTry
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
Don Young
GodCommunityRememberIceFarming
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.
Joni Mitchell
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