William Falconer Quotes
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Garry Kasparov -
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
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If it doesn't have that element to it, it doesn't really attract me.
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It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
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I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.
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Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable that philologists who are capable of carrying accuracy to the extremes in the case of words are as credulous as babies when it comes to "images," and yet an image is so full of information that ten thousands words would not add up to it.
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Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
