H. Rider Haggard Quotes
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist - is learning that it's OK to be versatile.
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Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.
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It's not going to be easy to change things.
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I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault.
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I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you'll fall by the wayside.
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I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.
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If we want to see God as he longs for us to see him, we must look at Jesus very closely.
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Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
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Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.
