Arthur Powell Davies (A. Powell Davies) Quotes
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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I didn't comment on any actress, and I have never compared myself with any senior actresses. Moreover, I have said many times that I have learnt a lot from my seniors. Don't spread rumours and false news about me.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.
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It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
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Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.
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To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
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We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
