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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Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.
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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. (5 February 1943)
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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.'
