Philip Pullman Quotes
'We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,' said the witch, 'or die of despair.'
Quotes to Explore
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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The tours are campaigns.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.
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Toute idée fausse finit dans le sang, mais il s'agit toujours du sang des autres. C'est ce qui explique que certains de nos philosophes se sentent à l'aise pour dire n'importe quoi.
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Cote de Pablo is one of my best friends! We went to college together.
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Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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'We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,' said the witch, 'or die of despair.'
