General quotes
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his Lord and savior, he is not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormonism is a cult.
Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people. The real Jesus of the Bible said, 'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's'. That is: Obey the government.
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
I can't imagine catering to an audience that doesn't also interest me.
We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.
I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them — he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton — and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
We survived on natural resources, so we should take care of the earth. When I leave home, I do things like switching off the heat and lights.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things — not the great occasions — that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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