Isabella Bird Quotes
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
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Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.
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I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics.
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Two of the three men, who were imprisoned, Norman Butler and Robert 15x Johnson, convicted and given life sentences, I'm absolutely convinced were innocent. The real murderers of Malcolm X have not been caught or punished.
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Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
