Kenneth Grahame Quotes
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
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I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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White America is in the minority.
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Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
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For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.
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I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
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Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and simple.
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He was indeed an altered Toad!
