H. Rider Haggard Quotes

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

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• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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  • You
  • Mean

• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
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  • Biblical
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• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
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  • Arts

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
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• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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  • Places
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• We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
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  • Humanity

• 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Game
  • Story
  • Fantasy

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • You
  • Sound

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
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• Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dream
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• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
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  • Focus
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• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • High
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• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Thinking
  • Control
  • Listening

• I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Red

• There's no way to make the pain play fair It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Pain

• No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

  

  John Vanbrugh
  • True
  • Wife

• We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Nature
  • Moments