James Van Allen Quotes
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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I came from a real working-class show business family.
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All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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Ik vind, dat er nog altijd iets moois overblijft, aan de natuur, de zonneschijn, de vrijheid, aan jezelf, daar heb je wat aan. Kijk daarnaar, dan vind je jezelf weer en God, dan word je evenwichtig. En wie gelukkig is, zal ook anderen gelukkig maken, wie moed en vertrouwen heeft, zal nooit in de ellende ondergaan!
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People ask me the most naive questions. Someone asked me if we have indoor toilets. I can't get upset. They just don't know.
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I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.
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I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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It didn’t matter that he’d never see her again because she was safe, and she didn’t have to live this kind of life. Her life would be good. She was safe.
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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.
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These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
