Emma Thompson Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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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 don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.
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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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...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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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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What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
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Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.
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It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.
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I don't have technique because I never learnt any.
