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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Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
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There are things that I am nostalgic about from the 'good old days.' I loved motion control cameras, actually. I love the way they sound. I used to do a lot of miniature work, and it's still warranted, but it's done less often, largely for budgetary, schedule, and flexibility reasons.
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'I have now learnt to despise you,' he said. 'You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!'
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
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Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.
