Jonah Lomu Quotes
When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
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They atheists want to control school curricula so they can promote a secular ideology and undermine Christianity.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
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I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.
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When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.
