Hal Elrod Quotes
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
Rachel Boston
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
Adam Baldwin
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
Pankaj Mishra
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
Ian Mcewan
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
Rachel Bloom
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
Nas
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
Harriet Walter
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I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
Mads Mikkelsen
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
Quavo Migos
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
Mae West
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My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.
Abbey Clancy
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
Patrick Roy
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
Abu Bakr
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I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world. The best land & best prospects for health I ever saw is here, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country to settle.
Davy Crockett
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. Henry
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A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.
Alan J. Pakula
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Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.
H. L. A. Hart
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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
Jeff Bezos
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Personal growth is about progress, not perfection.
Hal Elrod