Bernard Cornwell Quotes
Sharpe's sword was lucky. There was a soldier's goddess and her name was Fate and she had liked the sword Harper made for Sharpe. The Kligenthal was stained with the blood of friends, with the torture of flayed priests, and the beautiful sword contained not luck, but evil.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
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I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
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I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.
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I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.
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We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
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While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.
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Sharpe's sword was lucky. There was a soldier's goddess and her name was Fate and she had liked the sword Harper made for Sharpe. The Kligenthal was stained with the blood of friends, with the torture of flayed priests, and the beautiful sword contained not luck, but evil.
