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Herman Melville Quotes

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

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Truth Ride Sun Soup Truth Is Church

If we got into a time machine and went back to the 1700s, classical and baroque music would have been the equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Music Time Back Got Been Would

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

Soul Play Jazz Hip-Hop Try Box

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Down Never Always Complex Call Keep

I think looking after your mental and physical health is key to confidence, because they go hand in hand. Meditation, doing some yoga, working out always makes me feel more confident in my own skin.

Confidence Health Me Looking Key

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

Day Grateful Happy Wedding Doing

Gymnastics is just one part of my life, and I'm having as much fun with it as possible.

Life Fun My Life Possible Just One

Me personally, I don't think I'm even hot enough to be getting dissed.

Me Think Enough Hot Even Personally

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

Michel Houellebecq

Attitude Death Crazy Face You Rebel

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Christian Lifestyle More Being Than

There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

Juan Manuel Santos

People Land Colombia Who Everybody

Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.

Music Day Night Better Golf Get

When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 - it was pretty radical!

Hair Head Pretty Different Radical

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