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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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
