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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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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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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Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.
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It's all of the good that won't come out of us and how eventually our hands will just turn to dust, if we keep shaking them standing here on this frozen lake.
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Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .
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When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long
