Walter Scott Quotes
Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.
Quotes to Explore
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
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There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck.
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I can't imagine anything worse than being in a position that you're not allowed to live your life privately.
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Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
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I think of love as an action. Finding something that's outside of yourself, to serve someone else's soul, helping to ignite someone else's spirit, to bring about ease of heart and joy, serenity in somebody else.
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Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.
