Aaron Rowand Quotes
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
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I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
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An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife.
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I don't know why people have to be negative. Why can't everyone just be positive?
