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black calling world
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black. Alan Watts
black-and-white periods recreation
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. Alan Parker
black magic mind
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure. Alan Moore
black done facts
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front. Chinua Achebe
black ships peter
That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter. Dave Barry
black laughed ifs
If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.
black-and-white computer fascinated
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated. Buffy Sainte-Marie
black taught moments
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. Carter G. Woodson
black movement yards
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. C. L. R. James
centuries future toward women
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands. Rita Levi-Montalcini
centuries democratic doomed experiment freedom majority nation principles ruled states united vast viewed
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. Eliot Spitzer
centuries eternal father few god joseph learned lord minds minutes nature risen smith submit time
I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time. Gordon B. Hinckley
centuries century contempt edward gone greek middle ran virtually wrote
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. Neil MacGregor
centuries cultural entire handful locked private published
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Aaron Swartz
centuries lead responsibility
When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball. Andy Pick
centuries computing converts design device entire few fifty knowledge last learned materials mere pennies planet possessed power product raw rest several worth
The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago. Ramez Naam
centuries comparing focused hundred literally people performance score
I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin. Virat Kohli
centuries citizens condition french habits land life roman submit ways
We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped. Marion Marechal-Le Pen
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We stayed 30 minutes in the corridor, ... We were then put in two small rooms with stewards smoking cigarettes next to us and (radio station) NRJ conducting interviews 10 meters away. It's not an excuse (for the defeat), but it's very annoying.
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Mrs. Whiteley never smoked a pack of cigarettes that didn't have a health warning on it that was written by the surgeon general.
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Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.
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I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed; if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing; if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all; if it rains or shines; if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain. Conrad Veidt
cigarettes drinking excesses gave lead life six smoke
Little did I know the excesses this life can lead you into. I used to smoke and drink. I gave up cigarettes 35 years ago, drinking six years ago. Johnny Mathis
cigarettes far kids money near owners paying spend stores
Today, they spend far more money plastering convenience stores with their imagery, paying convenience store owners to put cigarettes near where kids will see them.
cigarettes criminal death eric garner indicate michael selling york
Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America. Rand Paul
cigarettes dirty disaster finance government great health living longer public secret society
The dirty little secret of public health finance is that cigarettes are a very cost-effective killer. Living longer is great for society but a disaster for government programs.
cigarettes consequences employees large percentage staff stuck
Employees are the ones who kind of get stuck with the consequences. ... Ironically, a large percentage of our staff smokes cigarettes but that's completely out of our hands.
couple hands people
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. Charles Dickens
couple men hands
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.
couple hands want
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better. Charles Stross
couple may terrible
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
couple years my-boyfriend
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. Alanis Morissette
couple majority adaptation
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.
couple guitar burritos
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos. Alan Arkin
couple moving done
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on. Alan Ball
couple believe next
I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. Al Michaels
doors hands names
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
doors years missionary
For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours. Charles Studd
doors choices discouragement
(Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life. Charles Stanley
doors luck once-in-a-lifetime
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away. Charles Spurgeon
doors nudists bathroom
I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.
doors dc-comics forever
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker
doors proud next
I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee. I can sing some polkas. And proud of that. Al Jarreau
doors chloe curse-words
As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. Chloe Grace Moretz
doors color different
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
lighting sidewalk small steps taking
We are taking small steps -- planters, new lighting and sidewalk repairs.
lighting videos
When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry. Lilly Singh
lighting
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. Douglas Sirk
lighting
I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting. Danielle Steel
lighting running somebody
It could be somebody running around lighting these fires. It is very upsetting.
lighting totally
We totally refurnished and refurbished the lobby, lighting and furniture.
lighting months nine pub
I have him going into a pub and lighting up, and then being told by a barman that he has got only nine months to go before he has to stop. Ian Rankin
lighting
In my environments, lighting is always very important. Lenny Kravitz
lighting plays scout team
This is something he's done in practice. He plays on the scout team and he's lighting us up.
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
opening-up people bigs
I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people. Bill Richardson
opening-up doors trying
When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment. Ed Helms
opening party
We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.
opening seem
(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange. Robert Niro
opening selling tickets
We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.
opening personnel sort year
With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago. Dave Wannstedt
opening-up space littles
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth. Bridget Riley
opening knows our-lives
There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing. Jane Hirshfield
opening success
I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
themselves tried turned
I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young. Robert Redford
themselves truth
Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
themselves ultimately whom
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
themselves
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed. Stephen Covey
themselves training work
But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.
themselves
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich Schiller
themselves turning
We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents. Bill Cosby
themselves
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible. Jorma Taccone
themselves
Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
women doe attention
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
women decorum length
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
women said mould
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Alan Jay Lerner