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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Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.
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For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
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India just went 3 years with no cases of polio. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.
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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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I don't have technique because I never learnt any.
