M. Shadows Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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I love the feeling of touching the rock, the feeling of my body going up the rock.
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I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
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All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
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Growing up, I was always playing with video games.
