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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

Quote by Camille Paglia about sex, danger, contentment

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

Quote by Brad Paisley about talent, chance, people

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about things, home, work, good, good luck

Only in the fact that I was kind of a science wonk in the '50s. You know, won a lot of science fairs, built computers.

Quote by Brian De Palma about science, computers, contentment

Europeans are incredibly negative about America at the moment. I think they lose sight of the fact that the country's a very divided place right now.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion, country, rightness, moment

The first edition was 100,000 copies, a huge economic risk for the publisher. I was quite proud of the fact that the book was not banned or censored.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about economy, risk, proudness

There is nothing we can't do, so it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

Quote by Trey Parker about nothing, people

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Quote by Francis Parkman about being

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just...

Quote by Gordon Parks

I couldn't have asked for a greater grounding. I have never quite got used to the fact that I was one of those involved in recording a Beatles album.

Quote by Alan Parsons

And because it's such a small town, your behavior is to some extent dictated by the fact that everybody in town knows you and you know everybody else.

EQuote by Estelle Parsons about city, contentment

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about reason, word, people

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about science, consequences, knowledge, change

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact, if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

Quote by Talcott Parsons

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about politics

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about opinion, interest

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Quote by Dolly Parton about limits, people

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics, if all were so, they would be wrong.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about bad, nothing

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Quote by Walter Pater about life, objects, poetry, common sense, sense

Matter of fact in May, I'm going with my son Isaac for a 254-mile bike ride from Jerusalem to Elat for peace and the environment.

Quote by Mandy Patinkin about peace