H. Rider Haggard Quotes
Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
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The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.
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These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
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Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.
