William Bligh Quotes
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.
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Everything you have in your life, you have attracted to yourself because of the way you think, because of the person that you are. You can change your life because you can change the way you think.
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I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
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When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.
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In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
