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 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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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 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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After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.
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My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
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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?
