C.P. Cavafy Quotes
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.
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Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?
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Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.
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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
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When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long
