Sebastian Junger Quotes
Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.
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At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.
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Email knocks me off my game. It's just for the morning commute and end of the day. Some might think I'm slow to respond, but those who need to reach me know to send me a text during those hours.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.
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Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
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Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
