G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so non-intrusive. But I am so sick of hair on my face and on my head.
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Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.
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I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.
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In those days, before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
