Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
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I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna.
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I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.
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I don't think 'Magadheera' should be remade, nor do I think it will be remade. It is very difficult to recreate the same magic.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family.
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
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I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean that on all levels - I like educational environments; I like being part of that community of learning and exploration. And I like to talk.
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
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We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
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We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?
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Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love.
