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 was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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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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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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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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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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From my position, obviously I want to maximise my potential and go as far as I can go and as high as I can go, but I'm not chasing fame. I get enough of that.
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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.
