Kenneth Grahame Quotes
Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Joe Roth, who ended up becoming president of 20th Century Fox, he was the producer of Our Winning Season. This was one of his first movies. It's just a really great, great little film, a lot of good people in it. I don't know whatever happened to that movie, and why it didn't get the success it deserves.
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Life is priceless even to an ant.
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You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered.
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Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know.
