Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I know all the critics.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
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Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think.
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When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
