Pericles Quotes
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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I pride myself on being tragically uncool.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.
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‘you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.’
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From Lee: I believe that the mind may make its own immortality : thought is the spiritual part of existence ; and so long as my mind influences others, so long as my thoughts remain behind, so long shall my spirit be conscious and immortal. The body may perish-not so the essence which survives in the living and lasting page.
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Flow into your dancing, circulate the steps into your body, as you would run your fingers through the hair of the one you Love.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48.
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.
