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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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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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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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
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Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
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Not greatly gifted, not deeply beautiful, Madonna tells America that fame comes from wanting it badly enough. And everyone is terribly good at badly wanting things.
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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?
