Charles Sturt Quotes
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.
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It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
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To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men’s sexual-and hence social-confidence while undermining that of women.
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after the release of Black:
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Marxists get up early in the morning to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.
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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.
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What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
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I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.
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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
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I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
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I was a real rebel. I got expelled.
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Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
