Eamon de Valera Quotes
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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I'm always challenged by someone.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.
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I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!
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If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.
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I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
