Pierre de Coubertin Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I never said half the things I said.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
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If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
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Terrorism does not disappear with revenge tactics but through making justice and equality before law a reality.
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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
