Ernest Shackleton Quotes
No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.
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I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
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I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'
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I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
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I really enjoy listening to players on the cusp of swing into bebop like Charlie Shavers, Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. They balance immense facility on their instrument with rhythm, melody, and more complex harmonies of the time.
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Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man.
