Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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I used to think interacting with people in the audience, touching people in the crowd, was a total ego-based thing. I never realized how fulfilling it would be. It's more about being on the receiving end - it's people giving. That's a powerful realization.
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'No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I’m not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm'.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.
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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
