Chief Joseph Quotes
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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I like to travel by myself.
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I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
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When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.
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My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
