Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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8) History never repeats itself.
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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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We need to work together as social partners to focus on our economy by removing all the obstacles to investment and move South Africa to a higher level of growth.
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
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When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.
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With all of the media and all of the pressures of the times, we have to have a spiritual foundation in order to survive. It's truly what I believe.
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The world is a pile of grunge.
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When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.
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My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
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Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
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I was raised - professionally - in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.
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It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
