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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After coming out as gay, I soon felt a lot more comfortable in my life, moment to moment.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.
Amy Poehler
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We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.
Philip Hammond
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There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.
Ase-Marie Nesse
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
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It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
Francis Drake