Chilon of Sparta Quotes
What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon of Sparta
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Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!
Mads Mikkelsen
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Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.
Edgar Ramirez
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
Ian Hart
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo
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Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
Cyndi Lauper
Blue Angel
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There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.
Beverly Johnson
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A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.
Buck Owens
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I’m avampire. I havesecret powers ,” he said with a full-on fake Transylvanian accent, which he dropped to say, “Actually, your mom let me in.
Rachel Caine
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They don't know you're secretly a badass?
Rachel Caine
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The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
Irwin Edman
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
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If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.
Val Kilmer
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Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.
Joanne Rowling
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Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
Juan Williams
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To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell
R. M. Ballantyne
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
Oscar Wilde
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What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.
Chilon of Sparta
