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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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
