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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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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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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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
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My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
