Francis Drake Quotes
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
Francis Drake
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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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The timing issue is something the writers are working on right now. But the sky's the limit at that point for them, because we would not be restricted by the time element.
Kiefer Sutherland
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
A. S. Byatt
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Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.
James Theodore Bent
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The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
Saint Augustine
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It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
Francis Drake
