Ella Maillart Quotes
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
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It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.
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People are taking a second look at Compton or rethinking what they believed to be true. Even the rap stars who helped established Compton's reputation worldwide are older now, and even their images have evolved.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
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I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
