Robert Falcon Scott Quotes
We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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No two wars are identical.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.
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Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
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We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
