C.P. Cavafy Quotes
That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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Be obscure clearly.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.
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Private equity firms working closely with venture capitalists and technologists may be able to unlock assets that others have not leveraged and build technology cultures to iterate on solutions that make these assets more productive.
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You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.
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No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
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That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.
