James Stephens Quotes
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
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Where I'm from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of 'cashed-up Bogans,' you know, people with no class but a lot of money.
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Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.
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Il faut bonne mémoire après qu'on a menti.
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The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.
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A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
