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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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 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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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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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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And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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While we cannot predict when or if the H5N1 virus might spark a pandemic, we cannot ignore the warning signs, ... For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives.
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
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When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?
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It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.
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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?
