Ernie Pyle Quotes
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Men lie all the time.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, 'What can I do, mum? Entertain me.' I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, 'Wow, this is an amazing experience.'
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Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
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I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
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Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.
