Pliny the Elder Quotes
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
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Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm.
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Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.
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You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
