Marion Motley Quotes
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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The sequester is not something that I proposed. It's something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.
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It is my dream that one day, great buildings like this one will exist in every corner of the world so every child can grow up with the opportunity to succeed.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.
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I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect.
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First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.
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It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.
