Freya Stark Quotes
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
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Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
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It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
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The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
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I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.
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I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
