Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.
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I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.
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The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
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It is the truth which is assailed in any age which tests our fidelity. It is to confess we are called, not merely to profess. If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point.
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I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
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Believe the best of everybody.
