Michael Morpurgo Quotes
We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.
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Not everything can be solved quickly.
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I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
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I love to play with Tony and Bill anytime, anywhere.
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Needless to say, if I knew my daughter would eventually develop a fondness for methamphetamine or crack cocaine, I might never sleep again. But if she does not try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in her adult life, I will worry that she may have missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience.
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Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
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The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.
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If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
