Bernard Cornwell Quotes
'We asked for them in February. It's June now; they must be coming.' 'They've been saying that about Christ for eighteen hundred years.'
Quotes to Explore
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.
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This is my impression of a Southern woman. 'Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!'
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The blue guitar And I are one.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.
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First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
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I knew as an assistant coach it wasn't my place to overstep the head coach.
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Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.
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I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.
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It began as a mistake.
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In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.
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'We asked for them in February. It's June now; they must be coming.' 'They've been saying that about Christ for eighteen hundred years.'
