H. Rider Haggard Quotes
We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.
Quotes to Explore
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
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Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.
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It's the governments that create the problems. People are fun; people get along. People in Iran really love Americans. There is no problem between us.
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Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.
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We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.
