Francis Drake Quotes
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
Ralph Boston
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
Yanis Varoufakis
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Warren Buffett
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
Ranbir Kapoor
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
Hari Kunzru
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
Waylon Jennings
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Tadao Ando
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
Barney Ross
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
Kate Fleetwood
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
Obie Trice
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It's a dirty little secret that I'm pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don't even know exist.
Doug TenNapel
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On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
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Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
D. H. Lawrence
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The world is always ending, for someone.
Neil Gaiman
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Has the Republic of Korea ever been more obviously unloved than in this year of 'Hell Chosun'?
Brian Reynolds Myers
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It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
Francis Drake