Walter Savage Landor Quotes
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.
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I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
