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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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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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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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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I prefer intellect and charm.
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I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
