Keira Knightley Quotes
My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
Keira Knightley
Quotes to Explore
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
Usain Bolt
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
Ed Koch
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
J. Paul Getty
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. Salinger
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
Jack Nicklaus
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Samuel Butler
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
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'Young men,' said Cæsar, 'hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.'
Plutarch
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Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.
Zeena Schreck
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
Barbra Streisand
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Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
Miguel
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
Sophocles
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My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
Keira Knightley
