Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.
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We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
