Dwayne Johnson Quotes
My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.
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I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still be political enough to advance an agenda.
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Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.
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Oh this is not that sweet loveOwn companion to the dove ;But a wild and wandering thing,Varying as the lights that flingRadiance o'er his peacock's wing.I do weep, that Love should beEver linked with Vanity.
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There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.
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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
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I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
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I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
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You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
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I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
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Fame does not define me. If you are looking for fame to define you, then you will never be happy and you’ll always be searching for happiness, and you will never find it in fame. Fulfillment comes from within you, by being authentic to yourself - not chasing fame.
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After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.
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My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.
