Rabbit Maranville Quotes
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.
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Down time is not the name of the game.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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If players want to protest, let them do it on their own time and on their own dime.
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I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.
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Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.
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I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.
