Joyce Cary Quotes
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
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My name is not Strangelove. I don't know about Strangelove. I'm not interested in Strangelove. What else can I say?... Look. Say it three times more, and I throw you out of this office.
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Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang members, I can sit with the politicians, I can sit with the CEOs. My brand can fit anywhere.
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The PPP is not just a political party. This is our life.
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
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I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
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It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.
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Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
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To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
