Rory Stewart Quotes
I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.
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You ain't got the answers Sway!
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History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.
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I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.
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I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
