Ernest Shackleton Quotes
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
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Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you, that kinda changed my life.
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If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.
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Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.
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Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.
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I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
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Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
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I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
