Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
