C. V. Wedgwood Quotes
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
Quotes to Explore
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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when you look at setting your mind on things above in terms of heaven...It means being who I was always created to be in the real light of Jesus-the person I was actually created to know.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
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When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.
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History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
