Ian Chappell Quotes
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Prince was unapologetically different, and he made it okay for his fans to be different and to celebrate their individuality. His social conscience challenged us to look deeper than the skin color of our neighbors.
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How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
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I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.
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Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.
