Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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'...reality’s always dull, you know...'
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
