Emile Zola Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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I have interests outside of rugby and have been cultivating them for when I do decide to hang up the boots.
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There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.
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You know what, I'm out there to give 100%, and I do what I think is best. I really don't care what other people think.
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The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
