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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Habit Friction Mind Gliding over
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Pleasures Imagination Drawings Models
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Life Required Bestow Superficial glance
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Grow wiser Learn Fault Instrument
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Man Masterpiece Creation Believe
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Could Designer Fake Fashion
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

Because Control Could Creative
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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

About Actor Anything Control
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Alive Angles Come Create
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Deaf Hearing Helped Invent
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I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Born Mouth Plastic Spoon
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I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

Always Any Backstage Band
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I want to age with some dignity.
Age Dignity Some Want
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For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

Band Did Exist Felt
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Audience Because Bush Ended
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Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.

Although Dig Guitar Kind
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.

Also Answer Available Awesome
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I'm on 'Game Of Thrones,' and every time we have someone new coming on our show, we welcome them with open arms and get revitalised by this new presence. Then we kill them off very quickly.

Arms Coming Every EveryTime
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Back Been Bit Bogart
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I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.

Always Desperate Great GreatSense
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Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Am Because Days Dealing
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We must find a way to live with the virus until a vaccine is found.
Must find Live Virus Vaccine
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My personal view is that another total lockdown would be counterproductive. Before defeating the virus, we must learn to live with it all around us and practice the skills of avoiding it like a landmine. Practice makes perfect. We cannot perfect those skills by locking ourselves up

Personal view Lockdown Counterproductive
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Even as a private lawyer, I had enough layers in my skin to take everything anyone threw at me without responding, even including insults, except when an allegation of a SPECIFIC nature with PROOF is made. As a public officer, I have even fortified that disposition the more

Private lawyer Layers Skin Allegation
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Whilst it is perfectly in order to constructively criticize public officers’ official actions and policies, it is absolutely wrong to make judgments about people’s characters to the extent of using foul language to describe them without having personal interactions with them.

Perfectly Constructively criticize Public officers
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So if you make the dislike or perception of people the barometer by which you adjust your life-pattern, then you have completely missed it. Live your life according to the dictates of your conscience and your natural inclinations, so long as they’re within the bounds of legality

Perception People Barometer Life
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Work hard at what you want, because it may not come to you without some determination and persistence.
Work hard Determination Persistence
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Surround yourself with people who will lift you higher. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.
Surround yourself People Higher Down
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I found this so hilarious but I thought - We fear the unknown no matter how helpful it is meant to be .. this is why combating a pandemic without public trust in government and health care delivery and without true community buy in will prove ineffective

Found Hilarious Fear Helpful
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So honoured to be on Forbes Woman Africa’s Power List of Africa’s Most Powerful 50 Women . Power is Influence , if anyone says they are leading and no one is following they are just taking a walk ! So grateful to God for the circle of influence He has blessed me with .

So honored Power Women
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The sure path to frustration is to try and control what is outside your circle of influence. Not everything that CONCERNS us is within our control . PEACE comes from knowing what lies beyond our control .

Sure path Frustration Control Influence
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Any Dead Dream Drop
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Dream Dreams Grow GrowUp
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The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Anything AnythingIsPossible Begins Best
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Future Libraries NoFuture Past
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You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

People Problem See You
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I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

Fun HaveFun Ideas Play
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They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Clearer Doing Fun Get
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The important thing is to be in love with something.

Important ImportantThing Love Something
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Amount Certain Dignity Everything
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I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

Am Become Been Corny
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At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience.

Always Comfortable Day Each
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And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

Able Being Comfortable Day
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The Joy that comes with meeting and connecting with people who love and appreciate God’s gift upon your life is so fulfilling.

The joy Meeting Appreciate God
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The problem today is that our youths don’t want to learn or work without pay. That is why it will be very difficult for some of them to make the type of films we are making. If they only think about money, they won’t make a headway.

Problem today Youth Learn Pay
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Appropriating technology in what you want to do, with the very limited resources available to you is exciting.
Appreciating technology Limited resources
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Content is king, and we must continually nurture the kingdom with great content.

Content King Nurture Great
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Since the smile is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart. I share my smile with you. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.

Smile Key Everybody's heart Friendship
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Choir Heaven Furniture Word
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The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

The world Board Square
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