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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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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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 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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Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
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As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.
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We always want to see each other do well. And I think we all want to win. As competitive as you are, you always want to win.
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I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.
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Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
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I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.
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Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.
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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
