Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
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The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
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I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.
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Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
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One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
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When it comes to beach volleyball, we're playing in 100-degree-plus weather.
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Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
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Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.
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The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
