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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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.
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Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz... chicken?!
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Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.
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I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.
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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.
