John Clare Quotes
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I love cycling.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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Pair up in threes.
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It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.
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Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.
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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
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Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.
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He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well.
