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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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks
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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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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Albert Camus
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What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.
Rebecca Traister
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As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Lew Wallace
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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
