Emma Thompson Quotes
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.
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In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.
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I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger Mask. I tried to model myself after them.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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Nobody is offered a World Cup.
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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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We should not forget the principles of Christian mercy and justice: to welcome back those who are repentant and need our assistance, while encouraging the faithful to endure to the end.
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I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.
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Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.
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You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.
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I've made a lifetime commitment to the union movement and to public education.
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I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.
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Che sempre l'omo in cui pensier rampollasovra pensier, da sé dilunga il segno,perché la foga l'un de l'altro insolla.
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I don't have technique because I never learnt any.
