Alexandra David-Neel Quotes
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.
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I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
