Alan Sillitoe Quotes
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
Alan Sillitoe
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
Larry Brown
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
Paris Hilton
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Edmond About
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
Dalai Lama
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
Taylor Sheridan
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
W. G. Sebald
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
Ted Deutch
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
Sam Neill
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
Pam Bondi
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
Zooey Deschanel
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
J. D. Salinger
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
Warren Farrell
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
Yann Martel
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Perhaps one of the few positive aspects of the coup is that it has discredited the claim that that that the state had been taken over by the Brotherhood under Morsi.
Tawakkol Karman
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Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
Alan Sillitoe
