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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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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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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I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.
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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
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A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
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In high school, I did the 'The Tempest' at Lincoln Center for Joe Papp.
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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!
