Iain Pears Quotes
For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
Iain Pears
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Adam Duritz
Matt Malley
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
Dalai Lama
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
Gavin Newsom
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
M. Stanton Evans
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
Fernando Torres
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
Rachel Stevens
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Sam Ewing
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I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
James Frain
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You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.
Ted Dekker
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
Ellis Peters
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
Iain Pears
