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But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something you'd put on a random shuffle.
- Pegi Young
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In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
- James G. Stavridis
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I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
- Ali MacGraw
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
- Patrick Lussier
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I've been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and past experiences; they write songs from their heart.
- Calum Scott
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Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.
- Nick Denton
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What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations.
- Timothy Spall
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The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.
- Amy Smart
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The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.
- Kurt Eichenwald
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
- Lactantius
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The future is purchased by the present.
- Samuel Johnson
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
- Yoko Ono
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
- Dan Quisenberry
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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
- William Ames
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I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.
- Robin Trower
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As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.
- Terence Winter
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I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.
- Goldlink
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For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
- Alfred Schnittke
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What I present is just a lifestyle I've long followed and appreciated.
- Li Ziqi
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Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.
- Joseph Rotblat
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
- Benoit Mandelbrot
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It is entirely possible to present science accurately and have a hit show.
- Donna Nelson
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I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.
- Heather Matarazzo
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I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
- Nigel Kennedy
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I was raised in France, and the American culture was present everywhere. On TV, on the radio.
- Manu Chao
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At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.
- Jim Goetz
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At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.
- Jonathan Kozol
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I live in the present and do not look that far ahead.
- Sourav Ganguly
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We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
- Ameen Rihani
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Descriptive Anatomy comprises a detailed account of the numerous organs of which the body is formed, especially with reference to their outward form, their internal structure, the mutual relations they bear to each other, and the successive conditions they present during their development.
- Henry Gray
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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
- William Bligh
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I think an owner needs to be present. When an owner is not present that's when things tend to go awry.
- James L. Dolan
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Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
- Nathan Myhrvold
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I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
- Ioan Gruffudd
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Woodstock is the only thing we have going for us in this part of the state in terms of national recognition. The idea is to extract what was good about Woodstock, repackage it, and present it to Middle America.
- Alan Gerry
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Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.
- Anthony Kiedis
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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
- Douglas Horton
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But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
- Georges Cuvier
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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
- John Poindexter
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I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
- Hideki Tojo
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I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
- David R. Brower
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Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
- Lauren DeStefano
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The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
- Guy Finley
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I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.
- Robyn
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I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.
- Joy Fielding
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If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of both. This strategy is helpful for occasions that involve a public opening of presents, like a bridal or baby shower. You can give something that can be wrapped and opened, along with a card containing a check.
- Jean Chatzky
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I think it's really important as a parent to be present, and I really, really worked hard because my dad struggled with that. And it really bothered me as a kid that I would want to share something with him, and he didn't hear me.
- Kirk Herbstreit
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The fact that women represent such a small portion of the tech workforce shouldn't just be a wake-up call - it should be a Sputnik moment. The tech industry is not America's future; it is our present.
- Susan Wojcicki
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
- J. G. Ballard
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I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
- Dana Carvey
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So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.
- Paul Michael Glaser
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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
- William Wilberforce
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The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.
- Joel Fuhrman
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No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.
- Tony Kaye
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You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.
- Brian Acton
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
- R. D. Laing
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I think I have between twenty and thirty commercials playing at present.
- Thayer David
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We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
- Mary McDonnell
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The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
- Ludwig Quidde
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
- Quintilian
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As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present.
- Brad Paisley
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People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.
- Steve Schirripa
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The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
- William Hamilton
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One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.
- Dick Costolo
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There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.
- Tom Freston
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If you start giving too much importance to pressure, you won't be in the present.
- Vijay Shankar
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I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.
- Alice Munro
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'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
- Jesse L. Martin
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It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
- Edmund Husserl
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You don't build a bond without being present.
- James Earl Jones
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I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.
- Edward Irving
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In all these years, I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.
- Sergio Mattarella
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
- Basil Bunting
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Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.
- Peter Abrahams
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I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
- Rene Auberjonois
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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
- Ajay Naidu
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
- Adlai Stevenson I
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An internship with Pep Guardiola would be a huge present.
- Miroslav Klose
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It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
- Donal Logue
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If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.
- Bozoma Saint John
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What success has done is present me with a lot of opportunities, and I haven't necessarily learned to say 'no' as well as I should have.
- Noah Hawley
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No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater.
- Shawn Mendes
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He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
- Tertullian
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If I do a bad dive, that's in the past. Move on. The next dive is a completely separate thing. It's just about being really present in a particular moment.
- Tom Daley
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Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.
- Julian Schnabel
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There's a joy in acting that's not present in writing, but there's a gratification in writing and creating that you can't necessarily find in acting.
- Mike O'Malley
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I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.
- Denis Leary
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We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
- Melina Mercouri
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I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.
- Diane Arbus
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In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.
- Tom Hiddleston
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One of the things I do struggle with is being in the present.
- Angourie Rice
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We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
- Bobby Sands
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Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
- John Bates Clark
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I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.
- Fernando Torres
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My brother Kobi made my mother very proud when he was elected deputy mayor of Jerusalem. My sister made her proud when she got an advanced university degree, finishing cum laude, and I could not have given my mother a better present than having her come to the Knesset to witness my swearing-in as a minister.
- Moshe Kahlon
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The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.
- Moshe Sharett
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
- Eberhard Weber
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Nicknamed 'Mad-Dog Mattis' by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn't an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining.
- Ryan Zinke
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