Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
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Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
