Robert Walpole Quotes
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
