Jameela Jamil Quotes
With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.
